A Bird Day

(Hardback)

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A funny and whimsical picture book about an ordinary family day, told through a bird family, from 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award recipient Eva Lindstrm.

Wash your beaks, its time for lunchflies again today, says Dad.

After lunch the young birds get sent off to playthey sing, hunt mosquitos, compare leg size and poke grubs. This is how birds spend a day.

Eva Lindstrm reflects the familiar and the absurd in human behavior through this funny bird family. We all recognize the family dynamics of bickering over fried mosquitos and worm pieonly the youngest is allowed to pick out the worms.

Toddlers will recognize key moments in a perfectly down to earth dayplay, mealtimes, stretching boundaries and sleep. With dry observations of human family behavior that adults will enjoy, this is a picture book to make all the family laugh and to read aloud together.

Expressive faces, hilarious hairstyles, Dads great cooking, and a sister and brothers everyday conversation combine in a heartwarming and completely individual picture book from a unique artist with an international following.

Eva Lindstrm was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2022 and has been nominated once for the Hans Christian Award and eight times for the August Award which she won in 2013. She is a major influence on picture and comic book artists worldwide.

Translated from the Swedish edition by Julia Marshall.

Other books from Eva Lindstrm

My Dog Mouse

Everyone Walks Away

Author Bio

Eva Lindstrm has written and illustrated many highly acclaimed picture books. She was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2022, and has been nominated once for the Hans Christian Andersen Award and eight times for the August award which she won in 2013. Lindstrm was born in 1952 and lives in Stockholm. She began her career as a comic artist and cartoonist, and has had a major influence on the new generation of comic book artists now emerging in Sweden.