The hummingbird: a bird so small it fits in the palm of your hand, weighs no more than a nickel, is sometimes mistaken for a large insect and travels more than 2000 miles each year from Mexico and South America to lay their eggs in North America only to travel back to the south in the fall. Author Nicola Davies offers the voyage of the tiny hummingbird in a simple story told through the voices of the people that see them and offer assistance along their  way north. There is a grandmother and her granddaughter watching the tiny bird at grandmother’s hummingbird feeder, a sailboat offering a place to rest , others along the way with their feeders until  it reaches north where nests are made and eggs laid. Simple story told in simple text with bright, delicate illustrations complimenting the story. For the younger reader, a story, for the more experienced reader, small bits of information are offered on several pages. With an author’s note, bibliography and index at the end of the book, this is STEAM at its best. Use in units about birds, migration, and loss of habitat.

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Submitted by Kathy George, Gray Public Library, Gray