Mixing live music with puppetry, this online kids' opera featured as one of the Guardian's 'Hottest front-room seats' during its first run last year. This is interesting as it could symbolise the human nature of greed and wanting more, not seeing what destruction they are causing through their actions. The selling point is the silly things they have to do, and are seen doing in the illustrations, when trying to catch him!

It was our hope that with this approach the bird would stand out completely from the rest of the book. One hilarious foiled plan after another and it’s clear that this goofy gang cannot catch that elusive birdie! The humor comes from the futility of the group's plan and the silly results combined with the juxtaposition of the youngest's successful methods. I would like to think all my books are told in a way that someone without language could understand but I think the story in this book could be the most visual of the three, it certainly has the least text.As well as when the other three characters try to catch the birds, later on, they then all have their eyes open, looking angry and chasing them away. In the depths of a purple-blue night four night stalkers our out with their nets in hopes of coming across something to catch. This book looks at least as amazing as the other two, which are the best modern storybooks we’ve found. m a g a z in e ’ s D E S I G N 1 0 0 fo r h is w o r k fo r F a i r T r a d e a n d P e o p l e T r e e , a n d i n 2 0 1 1 h e w a s n a m e d o n e o f B o o k t r u s t ’ s B e s t N e w I llu s tr a t o r s .

A simple, funny and atmospheric story that will delight younger children, and probably their parents as well. Usually full colour printing is in CMYK, but the whole of the book is printed in only CMK (blue,magenta,black) and the only yellow that appears in the book at all is in the colour of the birds. An entertaining tale of hapless hunters being bamboozled by birds with plenty of repetition and humour to keep both a 20 month old and nearly five year old amused. That the youngest is not in on the plan is very obvious throughout the book, as he does not have a catching net like the other three.I enjoyed checking out the mostly blue-shaded digital illustrations while they took over reading the dialogue. And thus we end back where we started, with the stalkers unwilling to accept the truth and Little One shrugging at the reader. If you think of books like Martin Waddel’s ‘Owl Babies’ it makes use of a repeated conversation across the page, each character repeats the same thing,over and over again. Quite suddenly three goon type characters trying to trap a bird popped into my head, that it would be great if there were three, each with a different plan.

Additionally, he is not looking straight ahead but watching the other three, this gives a feeling of him/her observing the other three. He was listed in Time magazine's 'DESIGN 100' for the work he has been doing for fair trade clothing company People Tree.This is a beautifully produced book which will take pride of place on my bookshelf alongside Chris Haughton's other books.