Beautiful Birds by Jean Roussen and Emmanuelle Walker

Feast your eyes on this. Beautiful Birds is a whirlwind tour, A to Z, of some of Ornithology’s most stunning creatures. A little bit of information about each bird species is paired with some of the lushest images I have ever seen in a picture book. Don’t overthink the rhyming couplets (how many ways can you think of to link quetzal with quail?); allow yourself to be swept away.

 

About Stephanie Cummings

Stephanie Cummings is a former BBC Journalist sharing her lifetime love of children's literature and illustration with her two young daughters -- and now with you, too, through Two in a Tepee. Stephanie has an academic background at the undergraduate level in literature and has master's degrees in both anthropology (material and visual culture) and design. She started her professional life in an art gallery and ended up producing radio programmes for BBC Radio 4, before deciding to become a stay at home mum. She lives with her handsome husband (who is sometimes invited into the tepee) in leafy north London.

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