#TooManyTweets! Wordy Birdy by Tammi Sauer

HI! I'M WORDY BIRDY.

REALLY!

THIS BOOK CONTAINS LOTS OF OF THINGS....

Wordy Birdy can't even wait until the first page of the book. She starts talking on the book jacket flap, blabs all over the endpapers, and prattles through the title page, promising drama, heart, humor, and... a few words about tuna salad!

She spouts off about her favorite and un-favorite foods (spaghetti, and tuna salad), jabbers about her family tree ("My cousin is a penguin... really!"), and can deliver a steady stream of questions in the blink of an beak ("Is Bigfoot real? Are we there yet?").

BUT SHE NEVER STOPS TALKING LONG ENOUGH TO GET THE ANSWERS.

Listening is not Wordy Bird's thing. But her friends Raccoon and Rabbit put up with the steady stream of tweeting because--well, they don't exactly know why they do! They are just...friends, and when Wordy Birds ignores some signs she should pay attention to--

DANGER! WRONG WAY!
DON'T GO ANY FURTHER!

--do they abandon her to her own fate? Do they save their own skins? Do they flee in fear?

"WE DO NOT!"

It's friends to the end even in the face of a barrage of blather from the wordy one, in Tammi Sauer's newest, Wordy Birdy (Doubleday and Company, 2018). At least there are no awkward silences with Sauer's loquacious bird on the page, as her loyal buddies bail her out of a bad scene with a bear and share cake and conversation as they celebrate their escape.

It's a silly story of some serious friendships with the blabby bird even chatting occasionally with the reader. With gloriously comedic illustrations by the talented Dave Mottram, whose clever artwork is all over the page along with Sauer's text, this is a perfect readaloud for a chatterbox kid or two you may know!