Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman

A mother bird sits on her egg that is about to hatch. She thinks the egg will hatch shortly and the baby bird will need food. So she leaves the nest to find food and while she is away the egg hatches and the baby bird leaves the nest in search of his mother. He encounters different animals and asks each one if they are his mother. At last he returns to his nest and his mother returns and finally he has found his mother.

One of my brother’s “Read it again! Read it again!” books for many nights. P.D. Eastman was a student of Dr. Seuss and he uses a very similar easy reader format in his books. They are repetitive but different and interesting. Young children enjoy repetition and “reading” a story that is really memorized, is encouraging to a child’s on their reading journey!

Interest Level: ages 2-grade 3
Reading Level: grade 1