As an outdoor school educator, I am always looking for books to help children relate to the outdoors. This book about Florence Bailey definitely hit the mark!
I enjoyed the extensive back matter on birds, locales and Florence herself. I appreciated that the book talked about tools needed for bird watching and that we don't need much to just listen and learn. Florence can be an inspiration to children young an young at heart to go after something they are passionate about.

A wonderful brightly colored picture book about Florence Merriam Bailey and her love for nature and birds. As a young girl, Florence would learn all she could about birds and their songs. I loved the word breakdown of how the songs sounded. I highly recommend this book for kids of all ages especially if you love birds and nature. Thanks to #netgalley for the advanced reader copy. I loved it.

I love, love, love this book! The artwork is absolutely stunning. This is an engaging story about the life and work of Florence Merriam Baily that I am sure adults and kids will love. I can't wait to share this with my 3 and 5 year olds!

Well-meaning book showing the young audience the work of Florence Merriam Bailey, a pioneering American ornithologist who campaigned against the use of bird feathers – and stuffed bird carcasses – as fashion accessories, and against shooting of birds for 'scientific' 'study' or worse. Instead she, and the text here, wanted to focus on the song the birds made, and what it might teach us all about respecting nature. Like I say, well-meaning, and it hits most of the beats it wants to well. I just can't get over my dislike of the choice of artistic style in the illustrations.

"Counting Birds" by Heidi Stemple lacks the female subject, but does quite a similar thing. Review:- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2564131917