This is a lovely book. The mother of a little girl reminds her child of the depth of her love by noting all the baby birds that are safe with their mamas that take care of them.

Both illustrations and story line are a joy. ( )

Genre
Bedtime stories
Picture books for children
Stories in rhyme
Tone
Quiet
Illustration
Inventive
Subject
Bedtime
Birds
Mothers and daughters
Nature
Nests

This is an interesting way to discover how various birds nest. It’s a parent reading to a child. The refrain “you’ll nest here with me” is used sporadically to tell a child that birds may be in the trees, seas, and sands, but you will be by me forever. It was simple, and lovely. The illustrations are a perfect match. ( )

A picture book that describes where different kinds of birds make their nests. The book uses rhyming and beautiful illustrations to capture children's attention. I read this to a kindergarten class, who were exploring animals that hatched from eggs in their science class. Alongside the authors' note, there is more information and facts about different types of birds. ( )

Reading Log #7
I liked the book You Nest Here With Me. The two reasons I liked the book was the language and illustrations. In my opinion, the book was an easy read, and because of the language, it was easy to follow along about what the message was.
The language in the story was patterned and rhymed. The pattern the book follows was it would repeat “but you nest here with me” each time a different home was described for a different species of birds. The book also rhymed which makes the story easy to follow along when reading. When the book repeats the pattern each time, it enforces the meaning of your home is my nest, and your home is with me. At the end it shows the mother and daughter not birds together in their home representing the repeating pattern, “but you nest here with me.” I liked the book because the language in the book was easy to follow and the pattern of repeating “but you nest here with me” portrays the meaning easily.
The second reason I liked the book was the illustrations. On each page of the book, the illustrations showed each species of birds in their own home or nest. In the book, each picture focused on different homes and how younger birds would stay home until they are ready to leave. One of the very last illustrations shows a mother bird, and her babies in the nest and the writing next to the picture explains they stay home to learn from their mother. Then the next illustrations compare the birds to humans and how children stay home until they are ready to leave. Illustrations help portray the story and grab the readers in to see what different birds must do with the meaning of the story.
The big idea of the story is to compare how baby birds stay in their nest until they learn and are ready to how children stay their own home until they are ready. It is an important message to portray because it shows readers that staying home and learning about life and the world is not only for just children, animals do it as well. ( )