Three chicks are fast asleep until a strange sound wakes them up. The bird family investigates the noise - and discovers a newly hatched family member to welcome! Illustrated in touchably soft 3-D collage art, with tough card pages and just a handful of easy rhyming words to follow, this is the ideal book for even the very youngest of children.

 

There are 24 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

Julie Stiegemeyer is a poet who has written several religious-themed picture books in the USA. Carol Baicker-McKee is a self-taught illustrator who works with paint, fabric and clay to create wonderful three-dimensional artwork. She holds a PhD in Clinical Child Psychology and is the author of the award-winning FussBusters series of parenting books and of a monthly column for Nick Jr Family Magazine in the USA.