Are
You My Mother?
By P.D. Eastman
Review by: Laura
Wood
A mother bird is
sitting on her egg in her nest. Suddenly the egg jumps, and mother
bird realizes that her baby is about to break out of its egg and will be
hungry. Away she flies for food.
While the mother bird is gone, the baby bird
comes out of its shell. The first thing he says is, "Where is
my mother?" He starts looking for her but doesn’t see her
in the nest. The baby bird wants to find his mother, but forgets
that he can’t fly. He falls down, way down out the nest. He
starts to walk to find his mother. He doesn’t know what his mother
looks like, so he walks right by her.
He comes upon a kitten, a hen, a dog, and
a cow. The baby bird asks all of them the same question, "Are
you my mother?" They all reply no. Before he continues
his search, he stops to wonder if he really does have a mother. He
is positive he does, so he goes on.
Next he comes upon other things, an old
car, a boat, and a plane and asks if any of them could be his mother.
He gets no reply, so on he goes.
The last thing he meets up with, is a
great big excavator. He is so sure this is his mother. Finally
he has found her! He runs excitedly up to it, climbs on and says,
"Mother Mother, here I am mother!" The excavator says to
the baby bird, "SNORT". Quickly the baby bird realizes
he has made a mistake. This is definitely not his mother. The
excavator begins to move and the baby bird is in big trouble now. He
cries out, "I want to go home, I want my mother!"
The excavator puts the baby bird gently
back in his nest and his mother comes home. She asks him if he
knows who she is. After the baby bird tells his mother of all the
adventures he had looking for her, he says, "You are bird, and you
are my mother."
This is a terrific book for little ones
age 18 months and up.
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