What can birds teach us about growing, finding food, making homes, and God? In Behold The Fowls of the Air, children meet birds from chickadees and gulls to larks, swallows, robins, sparrows, eagles, and ravens. These stories by Edith M. Patch, Lenore Elizabeth Mulets, and Mary Graham Bonner combine lively bird adventures with observations about the natural world and God’s care for his creatures. This collection brings classic bird stories, nature learning, poetry, and Scripture together f...

Bird Stories by Edith M. Patch is a charming collection of tales that brings the world of birds to life for young readers. Written in a narrative style, the book focuses on the lives and behaviors of various bird species, offering both factual information and imaginative stories. Patch aims to spark a sense of wonder and appreciation for nature in children, using the birds as characters to explore themes of survival, migration, and the natural environment.The book is filled with delightful...

This classic text by Edith Patch tells a number of interesting fictitious tales of bird lives. Included in the avian lineup are stories about a diverse set of bird species such as the crow and the osprey.In addition to Patch's quaint tales of avian adventure are several non-fiction articles about real birds.This rich volume will surely prove a welcome addition to any collection of nature publications

I CHICK, D.D. Right in the very heart of Christmas-tree Land there was a forest of firs that pointed to the sky as straight as steeples. A hush lay over the forest, as if there were something very wonderful there, that might be meant for you if you were quiet and waited for it to come. Perhaps you have felt like that when you walked down the aisle of a church, with the sun shining through the lovely glass in the windows. Men have often called the woods "temples"; so there is, after all, no...