Time to fly

Title:

Time to fly

Author:

Lyon, George Ella, 1949- author.

Summary:

Mama Bird says it’s time to fly! Baby Bird thinks not. Nest is best…or is it? With the help of his mama, Baby Bird discovers the amazing things that can happen if he finds the courage to spread his wings and fly. -- Amazon.

Audience:

Ages 4-8. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Grades K-1. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm

Genre:

Stories in rhyme.

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Birds -- Juvenile fiction.

Animals -- Infancy -- Juvenile fiction.

Flight -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Coleman, Stephanie Fizer,

Publisher:

Atheneum Books for Young Readers,

Publication Date:

2022

ISBN:

9781534474109

Publication Information:

New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2022]

Call Number:

P LYON

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
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Summary

In the spirit of Mark Teague's Fly , Baby Bird learns to overcome his fear of leaving the nest in this sweet and encouraging picture book.

Mama Bird says it's time to fly! Baby Bird thinks not. Nest is best...or is it? With the help of his mama, Baby Bird discovers the amazing things that can happen if he finds the courage to spread his wings and fly.

Author Notes

George Ella Lyon was born on April 25, 1949, in Harlan, Kentucky. She is an author who has published in many genre, including picture books, poetry, juvenile novels and articles. Her books often take place in Appalachia. She earned her B.A. at Centre College in Kentucky in 1971, her M.A. at the University of Arkansas in 1972 and her PhD at Indiana University - Bloomington in 1978.

She first published in 1983, a poetry collection called Mountain. Aside from publishing, she also taught writing at a number of colleges, including the University of Kentucky, Centre College, Transylvania University, and Radford University. She has also acted as an executive committee member for the Women Writers Conference. She has also taught writing through workshops, conferences, and author visits.

Her titles include Father Time and the Day Boxes, Sonny's House of Spies, Holding on to Zoe, All the Water in the World, With a Hammer for My Heart, and Where I'm From: Where Poems Come From. In 2014 her title Voices from the March on Washington made the Hot Civil Rights Titles List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

"You've outgrown this woven home./ It's time to fly!" urges a mother bird, bright blue with an orange breast, who perches a few feet away from the tree where her last offspring stubbornly refuses to budge. The little bird, however, not a fan of change, insists that "Nest is best." Readers can sympathize, given the vast sky above and the vertiginous bird's eye view of the ground below. But persistence eventually pays off when the mother tempts the would-be fledgling with a snack, rewards its short round trip with a snuggle (shown in a sweet extreme close-up), and then delivers some hard truths: a flightless baby bird is a sitting duck for a hawk, shown circling in the background above. And so the bird steels itself, then takes off to join its siblings: "Hello wings!/ Hello air! / I'm on my way...// to everywhere!" A fresh breeze blows through this familiar story of nurture and independence, thanks to Lyon's (Trains Run!) emphatic metered verse, which offers structure to the avian ordeal, and Fizer Coleman's (Birds of a Feather) digital art, whose varied cinematic framing evokes layered textures of printmaking and watercolor. Ages 4--8. Author's agent: Brenda Bowen, Book Group. Illustrator's agent: Anne Moore Armstrong, Bright Agency. (July)