This is the Nest that Robin Built by Denise Fleming - OPTIONAL

This is the Nest that Robin Built by Denise Fleming.  PICTURE BOOK Beach Lane Books (Simon and Schuster), 2018.  $18.  9781481430838  

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) – OPTIONAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE  

In the same style as This is the House that Jack Built, the reader is taken through the steps a robin takes in building her nest.  Different animals play a role in providing the supplies for a well-made nest, including straw from the horse barn and mud from the pig pen.  When the robin is done with her nest, her little blue eggs are placed inside until they hatch, grow up and leave the nest.  

If you are looking for a book about how nests are built, this is a simple and fun explanation.  Because of the rhythm, this makes for a fun read aloud.  The illustrations are a collage and it comes across a bit messy, which isn’t very appealing (especially the pig pen picture).  There is also a fold out page that shows the whole process, but I think fold out pages are hard for a library book as they tend to get ripped and folded up wrong.  

C. Peterson