The Talking Birds

This children's book is part of a planned series of children's books that will be produced to communicate messages of direction, hope, safety and character building. This book features a variety of candid photographs of birds in different settings. These photos were captured by International Nature Photographer, Mr. Youli Xia. Each photograph highlights a bird or birds with a distinctive expression. Some birds are motionless while others are full of life. This book shares ten short, simple, easy-to-read, and easy-to-understand stories. These stories are designed to capture the interest and attention of young children from the age of 3-12. They will be fascinated by the vibrant colors and the dramatic candid facial or body expressions of the subject bird or birds in the photographs. The intended educational value for this book and the other future books is to offer effective tools for character building. These stories are sure to include the mention and discussion of core values like respect, responsibility, patience, accountability, trustworthiness, thoughtfulness and safety, to name a few.