★A series of wonderful essays dedicated to children by Xu Lu, a famous Chinese Children's literature writer, poet and essayist! Many of the his works had been selected into the primary and secondary schools’ Chinese Textbooks of both sides of the Taiwan Straits and Hong Kong and Macao!
★The easy read and famous model essay enables children to learn wording and phrasing unconsciously and accumulate writing materials to improve writing ability.
★The selected articles of this series which are mostly newly created, are rich in themes, positive in intention and moderate in length, showing the happiness of childhood and beauty of language!
★Suitable for kids over 7 years old.

Two books of this series: Songs of Country Birds; The Stories about Books and Kids.

When we were young, we often saw woodpeckers pecking at trees again and again. Have you ever wondered why woodpeckers could grip the trunk firmly without falling? Why wouldn’t woodpeckers faint with repeated pecks? Would they suffer from “cerebral concussion”?
We all know the idiom “A cuckoo takes over the nest of a magpie.”, but did you ever think about why birds such as turtledoves and cuckoos would occupy magpies’ nests “shamelessly”?
You must have seen swallows nesting under the eaves in spring and flying low in the rain. But have you ever seen a flock of swallows crossing the sea? Have you ever seen them rain down on the decks of passing ships as they were so tired?
You must have heard melodious songs of skylarks, but do you know they also sing with a local accent? Do you know why the great poet Shelley called the skylarks “a cloud of fire” in the blue sky?

There’s no hurry. The Songs of Country Birds will tell you the answers and take you into a different nature. This is a rich and warm book of nature, which will let you find something that interests you as well as beautiful and moving folk stories. A magical and romantic journey into nature is about to begin…

Xu Lu, a famous children’s literature writer, poet and essayist, was born in Jiaodong Peninsula, Shandong Province in 1962. Many of his works have been selected into the Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in Hong Kong and Macao regions. His works have won many awards including the Best Works Award, National Outstanding Children’s Literature Award, Bingxin Children’s Book Award and Chen Bochui Children’s Literature Award.