Kathryn Apel (text) and Renée Treml (illustrator), The Bird in the Herd, University of Queensland Press, March 2021, 40 pp., RRP $24.99 (hbk), ISBN 9780702262944
There’s a bird in the herd that stalks as it walks, eating slugs and the bugs that the herd stirred…
This bright, playful look at life on an Aussie cattle farm uses rhyme as the herd goes about its business in the paddock with the bird, the farmer, and his kelpie. But it’s more than fun language and illustrations when the cows are scattered by a noisy disturbance, readers have the chance to spot the hiding herd.
Beautifully illustrated by skilled and prolific illustrator Renée Treml, Bird in the Herd makes for an enduring early childhood picture book.
Reviewed by Pam Ueckerman
