Today at the Bluebird Cafe: Today at the Bluebird Cafe - Hardcover

Ruddell, Deborah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689871538 ISBN 13: 9780689871535

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2007

Synopsis

It's all-you-can-eat
at the Bluebird Café,
A grasshopper-katydid-cricket buffet,
with berries and snails
and a bluebottle fly,
a sip of the lake
and a bite of the sky.

A world of birds unfolds in twenty-two vivid poems that capture the unique personalities of birds from backyard blue jays to toucans and cockatoos. Come sweep through the sky with an eagle, compare table manners with a vulture, and mock a mockingbird -- if you dare!

Debora Ruddell's poems are funny and thoughtful, silly and sweet. Joan Rankin's delightful pictures enchant the eye and tickle the funny bone. There is something for everyone who flies through the pages of this brilliantly birdbrained book.

About this title

About the Author

Deborah Ruddell is the author of the celebrated picture books Who Said Coo?, illustrated by Robin Luebs, and A Whiff of Pine, A Hint of Skunk and Today at the Bluebird Cafe, both illustrated by Joan Rankin. Before writing children's books, she was an art teacher and a graphic designer. Deborah lives in Peoria, Illinois. Visit her at DeborahRuddell.com.

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Today at the Bluebird Cafe

A Branchful of BirdsBy Deborah Ruddell

Margaret K. McElderry

Copyright © 2007 Deborah Ruddell
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-689-87153-5

Chapter One

TODAY AT THE BLUEBIRD CAF

It's all you can eat at the Bluebird Caf, a grasshopper-katydid-cricket buffet, with berries and snails and a bluebottle fly, a sip of the lake and a bite of the sky.

HOOPOE VOODOO

You people who pooh-pooh the hoopoe are taking a horrible chance: He's likely to soothe you with voodoo and stew you with quite a few ants.

MRS. CROW GETS DRESSED

She gives her satin coat a shake and buffs her leather nose; she tries to pull the wrinkles from her charcoal panty hose.

She finds her purse and fills it up with candy corn and straw; she bends her knees and pushes off with a gravel-throated "Caw!"

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689871538
• ISBN 13: 9780689871535
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32