The Lion and the Bird, Marianne Dubuc

The Lion and the Bird is a picture book written by Marianne Dubuc.  It is a sweet book about a friendship that occurs between a bird and a lion when the bird gets hurt and left behind in the Winter.  When Spring comes the bird leaves the lion goes through the rest of the seasons alone.  The next Winter the bird returns and the book comes full circle.  This is a good picture book to use in the classroom.

I would use The Lion and the Bird in my classroom to integrate ELA with science.  Since this book talks about all four seasons I would do a read aloud of this book and as a class we would create an anchor chart, and as we get to a new season we will talk about and write down the characteristics of the seasons.  Then I would give students a piece of paper divided up into four quadrants and in each quadrants they would draw a picture and write a sentence about each season.  This is a great book to use to teach about seasons that I will have in my classroom.