One day when Albert is at his window, two cardinals come to build a nest in his hand, an event that changes his life.

While a boy in North America urges his father not to cut down the trees where the wood thrush lives, a boy in South America awaits the return of the bird that he calls "la flauta" for its flute-like song.

The birds that glide through the sky, hop through the grass, and sing on the fence gradually come to feed from a child's hand.

Bird cannot find Bunny during a game of hide-and-seek and worries that Bunny has run away.

A curious chick is disappointed at all the things his mother says he can’t do, such as swim like a duck, until he discovers one thing he can do very well.

Throughout the day, a child notices, counts, and compares things, such as how many boys and girls are on the playground and how many more girls there are than boys, until there is finally something that cannot be counted.

Bess is feeling terribly lonely when out of the sky tumbles a bird named Bella, her tiny suitcases packed with all manner of wonderful things.

A bird who doesn't like to flap his wings and the worm he has befriended learn the dangers of trusting strangers as they travel south together for the winter.

When Caruso, a bird who is afraid to fly, is blown out of his home one windy night, he must rely on a new friend, a dog named Sophie, to take him back to his parents.