 Hi everyone, my name is Steph, this is Little Bookish Teacher and today I'm really excited to share with you a new release picture book called Bushbirds by Helen Milroy. This is published by Fremantle Press who sent me a review copy of the book so thank you very much to them and this is coming out on April 4th, 2023. This is a gorgeous and simple picture book all about native bushbirds of Australia. On Fremantle Press' website they say, little birds, big birds, all different kinds, how many bushbirds can you find? From curious blue wrens to booming emus and from feasting lorikeets to eagle soaring, Bushbirds by Helen Milroy is a fun and lively read with bold illustrations designed to celebrate the birds in our bush. This is a really gorgeous picture book that is written for early readers so it's probably great in a primary school for a foundation or kinder to Year 2 and it is just a really gorgeous book to look at and to unpack with students. Helen Milroy is descended from the Pallico people from the Pilbara region in Western Australia and I apologise if I have mispronounced any of that and it is a gorgeous First Nations text. What I absolutely loved about this as I was reading it was one, the gorgeous illustrations. They are so colourful and bright and bold, hang on I have to find my favourite one. Look at this, it's just gorgeous. It also has really simple text in there inside so each page has a bird and one little thing about the bird. So this one says, Rosella cleans her colourful suit and it's just a little statement related to the bird on the page. So how would I use this in the classroom? I mean it makes a really great read aloud. There's a lot of really great picture books coming out about native birds here in Australia at the moment and this is, you know, joining the ranks of them. But it's a great read aloud because it is a simple text. The language is deceptively simple but there are still a lot of things that you can pull out of it and unpack. For example, there is a really great use of verbs in here which when you're teaching foundation to Year 2, like having good mentor texts that use verbs is so important because verbs have such an important impact in a text and to have simple short texts that you can use to actually draw those out and see how they've been used effectively is really important and Bushbirds does that really, really well. It's also really great even just for pulling out additional verb caps, so not just verbs like the word you, which some kids might have heard of, but may not know what it actually means. And there's a whole lot of those words all the way in here like fiery red. Why would you use fiery red? To pull out those words, unpack them, think about how you can use them. It would make a great writers notebook lesson to see can we come up with some really great sentences where we would use that word to build vocabulary knowledge. Great. Love it. I also like the link to the native wildlife because quite often we're doing inquiry units about Australia, about about habitats, and this would fit perfectly into a unit like that as a jumping off point for students. So thank you very much again to Fremantle Press for sending me a copy of this book. It's an absolute delight. Love it. Love adding it to my First Nations picture book collection and I can't wait to share it with staff and students at school. I'm going to leave links to where you can find this book and more information about it down below. There are also some really great teacher resources listed on the Fremantle Press website. So if you are thinking of using it in the classroom, that is a great resource to go to because there are links for different units and different discussions you can have around the text. If you'd like to let me know that you're here, but you don't want to leave a comment, feel free to leave any kind of bird emoji down below. Otherwise, I hope that we're on the world just staying safe and healthy. And I will see you in my next video. Thanks so much for watching. Bye, everyone.