With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors.

Mrs. Frizzle and her class come to Carlos' aid when he gets too close to a bird's nest while studying birds.

Illustrations and an easy-to-read countdown rhyme follow ten birds that, one by one, fall off the twig on which they were sitting, but the last one finds a surprise waiting.

In this retelling of an old English folktale featuring birds native to the U.S., Magpie patiently explains to the other birds how to build a nest. Some birds are impatient and fly off without listening to all the directions, however, and that is why, to this day, birds' nests come in all different shapes and sizes. Includes "For Creative Minds" section.

Story told in verse about a dove who finds a large egg and takes it back to her nest. When it hatches, a strange creature emerges.

Rhyming story recalls the sequence of events in the nursery rhyme The House that Jack Built in telling the story of interconnected happenings accompanying the hatching of the eggs of the narrator, a chicken.