Oh how I would love to have the kids be the baby bird in the story while I did the dialogue of all the other animals! ( )

Genre
Bedtime stories
Picture books for children
Tone
Funny
Noisy
Illustration
Detailed
Subject
Baby birds
Birds
Sleep
Zoo animals

With illustrations from the brilliant Steven Kellogg and type that runs from page in a buffet of bright, bold fonts, this book is as much fun to look at as it is to read. Baby beebee bird is new to the zoo and doesn't seem to understand nighttime is for sleeping, not for singing at the top of your little bird-lungs. Will the bear and the lion and the giraffe and all the rest of the zoo animals ever get any sleep? A perfect nighttime story. ( )

Unfortunately, this book portrays virtually all the animals as gendered male -- unrealistic and contributing to the general misapprehension of children that animals are male unless they're visibly with a baby. So I can't recommend this book unless you're able to re-gender on the fly -- referring to some of the animals as "she" instead of "he" to make it more balanced and realistic. But then you can't show your child the letters as you're reading. Disappointing that the author made such a basic mistake, in what would otherwise be a fun zoo animal book. ( )

This book is a great story for emergent readers. I love this book because it has repetitive phrases that a child can easily pick up on and read along with an adult. The story is about a baby bird who sings all through the night, keeping all the other animals in the zoo up all night. The bird sings beebeebobbibobbi over and over throughout the night because he sleeps all day long. ( )