Reviews for Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds

The average rating for Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-28 00:00:00 John Joyce A childhood favorite. Very white suburban 1950's European winter/mythology mixed with the Nativity story to build fifteen of McGinley's charming poems wherein the natural world recognizes the miraculous birth and offers gifts of the body to the Mother and Child. The stork gives her downy feathers, the river turns to wine, the robin gains her red breast fanning the little fire, the pine earns evergreenness by hiding the Holy Family from Herod's men and so on. I enjoyed rereading it and I think many children would enjoy it today. Many of the poems center on the Virgin Mary's particular thanking of subjects - my favorite is the story of the rosemary bush who holds the baby's new-washed clothes to dry and gains so much in return.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-10-20 00:00:00 Joseph Palombi A Wreath of Christmas Legends is my first 2019 Christmas read. It is a collection of lyrical retellings of the First Christmas. For me, Ms. McGinley's "The Stork," "The Ballad of the Robin," and "The Legend of the Holly" were the most rousing of the collection.