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Wordy Birdy
Wordy Birdy
Reviewed by: Sheila Dube - Springvale Public Library, Springvale, Southern Maine Library District
Review Date: October 6, 2018
Review
An omniscient narrator, with the side comments from Wordy Birdy's three very patient friends, describe how the brightly-colored and self-centered Wordy Birdy obsessively talks from the minute she gets up in the morning. The problem or morale in this picture book is that Wordy Birdy never stops to listen to the answers of her plethora of questions or observations. Only when she comes face-to-face with a bear is she able to stop the talking and react, and only after extreme interference run by Rabbit, Squirrel and Raccoon her three amusing and sarcastic, albeit loyal, friends. The humor stems from the friend's reactions to Wordy Birdy and the adult readers will commiserate with the friends if they have a Wordy Birdy of their own. Mottram's brightly colored detailed illustrations provide the added layer of expression and the use of large white dialogue bubbles, that many times take over the two page spreads and make the reader hunt for the single sentence text by the narrator, accentuate the intrusive nature of Wordy Birdy's verbose habit.
Overall Book Score: good
About the Book
Author:
Sauer, Tammi
Illustrator: Mottram, Dave
Illustration Quality: good
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random House
Book Type: picture book fiction
Genre: fantasy
Audience: preschool,grades k-3
Binding Type: trade edition
Binding Quality: fair
ISBN: 9781524719296
Price: 16.99