Bird Rehearsal Illustrated by Stacy Innerst Abrams (Cameron Books), May 14, 2024
Starred Review...!
*"An avian chorus whistles, caws, coos, and calls as day brightens and then fades. In a set of luminously hued tableaus, a chorus of bird songs weave between and around Innerst’s richly hued close-up portraits of robins and mourning doves, wrens, cardinals, mockingbirds, and over a dozen other common residents of urban and suburban trees and roosts. To go with art that rewards looking and then looking again, the all-birdsong narrative, read aloud, creates a kind of infectiously joyful mouth music." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)