Book jacket image for The Winter Bird by Kate Banks

Candlewick

9781536215687

STARRED REVIEW

The Winter Bird

When a nightingale with a broken wing can’t fly south for the winter, a kind and tightknit community of creatures help it survive the season in this earnest tale.

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Review of ‘The Winter Bird’

As The Winter Bird opens, author Kate Banks cleverly invites young readers to put their inference skills to work as she describes the change in seasons. “It was the time of year when the sun went to bed early,” she writes. “The big brown bear lumbered off to its winter den. .…

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