Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

The dead bird

A group of young children find a dead bird. They decide to bury the bird. They take the bird to the woods to give it a proper burial. The children mourned, sang, and planted flowers around the dead bird's grave. The children came back to visit the grave, until they forgot.

Brown, Margaret Wise//Charlip, Remy

Addison-Wesley

0-201-09167-4

New York

1965

Abstract provided by Jocelyn Weeda and Shanda Page, 1994