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The Go-Away Bird

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The Go-Away Bird by Julia Donaldson, and Catherine Rayner

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By Julia Donaldson, and and, Catherine Rayner

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From a star picture-book partnership, Julia Donaldson and the award-winning Catherine Rayner comes a gorgeous story about friendship and working together.

‘The Go-Away bird sat up in her nest,
With her fine grey wings and her fine grey crest.’

One by one, the other birds fly into her tree, wanting to talk or to play, but the Go-Away bird just shakes her head and sends them all away. But then the dangerous Get-You bird comes along, and she soon realizes that she might need some friends after all . . .

The Go-Away Bird combines brilliant rhyming verse from much-loved children’s author Julia Donaldson, creator of the bestselling picture books The Gruffalo and What the Ladybird Heard, with stunning illustrations from the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal-winning Catherine Rayner. A charming story about the power of friendship from a thrilling creative partnership, this beautiful book is perfect for reading together.

Reviews

26 Aug 2024

I liked the book when the go away bird said you can stay you can stay you can stay.

09 Aug 2024

It was a story of an unfriendly bird who would push away every bird who would come and try to make friends with her. But one day she needed help and all the birds came to her rescue. A lovely story about friendship.

04 Aug 2024

It was good because I like the part where it says go away go away go away. I like the ending whey they all become friends.

02 Aug 2024

we liked the book
becuse it is funny

10 Jul 2024

My favourite part was when the go away bird said come back and be friends.

05 Apr 2024

The go away bird was saying that no one can be her friend and then there was a big bird that came to eat her and she said go away go away. There was another bird that way a come back bird

23 Jan 2024

This is the stiory about a grey bird. She always says Go away to other birds. Then a brown bird chased after her .Then the other birds came to rescue the grey bird and the birds all chased the brown bird faraway. This is a wonderful story about friends .

03 Jan 2024

I thought it was good. I thought the brown bird was going to eat the grey bird. I thought the green bird was really chatty. I thought the red bird was really greedy. I thought the blue bird was so flippy and flappy. I thought the brown bird was scary . I thought the yellow bird was really quacky.

27 Aug 2023

Beautiful as someone saved his life

22 Aug 2023

I liked it at the end of the story when the go away bird says yes, at the beginning she was rude at the end she was nice

21 Aug 2023

In my opinion, it was okay.

18 Aug 2023

I like how the bird says “go away” and plays with friends.

03 Aug 2023

Very interesting .I would recommend.

02 Aug 2023

Yikes

31 Jul 2023

I loved that everybody needs a friend.

14 Sep 2022

My Favourite part of the book is when they all become froends

25 Aug 2022

I liked the different colour birds and I liked that they all joined together to fight the big hairy bird

29 Jul 2022

I loved the birds

26 Jul 2022

I would recommend it because I like the story

01 Jun 2022

I love this book, it is so colourful and a great book to read aloud. Everyone can join in.

18 Jan 2022

Alot of meaning to this book and an easy read

26 Aug 2021

I liked that the birds came back to help the grey bird from the scary brown one.

31 Jul 2021

I liked it when the bird said go-away, go-away, go-away! It was a good story.

20 Jul 2021

I liked this story. I like birds so this was a good book. I would recommend it.

19 Jul 2021

I liked it when we wanted friends at the end.

01 Nov 2020

We got this book at the zoo after seeing lots of animals. The birds all make friends in the end.

28 Aug 2020

I liked it at the end when she asked everyone to stay and be friends and play

27 Aug 2020

The bird was not kind but it was nice at the end when the other birds helped. They became friends

05 Aug 2020

I thought it was a fun book. It taught me that together, we can be more powerful than on own own.

01 Aug 2020

I liked how it told the story of not to say “ go away” to people

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