Have You Seen Birds? by Joanne Oppenheim

Have You Seen Birds? Reviews

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  Joan

  Have you seen birds?
  
  Long-legged tall birds, tiny bug-sized small birds? Spring birds? Early summer garden birds? Autumn birds? Winter birds? Woodland birds? Night birds? Town birds? Farm birds? On-beyond-the-barn birds? Marsh birds? Sea birds? Fishing birds? Sky birds? Have you seen birds?
  
  Thirty-five plasticine-sculpted depictions of birds in a variety of settings grace the pages of this wonderful young reader book. The target audience, six to eight-year-olds [early primary grades] will find much to enjoy in each of the pictures. A whopping fifty-eight different species of birds accompany the simple rhyming text that tells about birds, how they look, what they do, how they sound. A special book for parents and children to enjoy together.
  
  Highly recommended.
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  Lily

  Great for my 4 year old. He loves the colors in the book. I must have an older version because the cover of ours is purple with a different illustration in the book. Frankly, I like our cover better than the one shown in Goodreads. 😃
  
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  Anna

  2.5 stars
  Have you seen birds? That's what the book asks, then lists descriptions about birds; what they do, what they look like, where they live. The sculpted artwork is interesting but the story is lacking.
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  Steven R. McEvoy

  This is another award-winning book by illustrator Barbara Reid and author Joanne Oppenheim. It has won the Canadian Council Children's Literature Prize, the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award and the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian picture Book Award. Both Reid and Oppenheim have won numerous other awards also.
  
  This book looks at birds of a feather from all over the place - birds of different sizes, birds in different places, birds doing different things. Woodland birds, night birds, farm birds and city birds - it covers them all, with 35 amazing illustrations depicting 58 different species of birds wonderfully rendered in Reid's highly detailed plasticine art. This is now one my favorite Barbara Reid books.
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  ambyr

  Look, I just really love the modeling clay illustrations, okay?
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  Spencer

  Gift from Harper's grandmother
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  Char

  A great follow up to “Have you seen trees?” Seems to run a little longer though.
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  Lisa

  Love the art in here. Sometimes it looks like clay, other times like felted wool.
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  Kelly

  Charming. Such a fun use of words, paired with whimsical illustrations that manage to convey a good picture of each bird in just a few strokes.
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  Ali Hembree

  This book would be great to use in science class for 4th or 5th grade.
  
  The content of this book includes all different kinds of birds and the different type of sounds they make while flying around. A conversation could be started of why birds make different sounds.
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  Carol

  The beautiful relief-dough illustrations in this picture book made me think about "seeing" and "really seeing." Do we really see birds? When do we really see them, and appreciate their stunning beauty and uniqueness?
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  Emily Taylor

  Peritext: NA
  Author: Joanne F. Oppenheim
  Themes: Birds and where they live.
  Text: Standard with few exceptions
  Thoughts: A good story to help with brainstorming about birds, beautiful art that could be used for student creations.
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  Katherine Sandoval

  What a wonderful book to read aloud and the illustrations are marvelous! A must read for bird lovers everywhere!
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  Sarah

  Love the plasticine artworkd