An award-winning wordless picture book in which a symphony conductor ventures into the forest and conducts a musical movement of trees that magically become birds in flight..
Throughout the day and into the night various birds sing their songs, beginning with the woodpecker who taps a pole ten times and counting down to the hummingbird who calls once.
Chirpie the bird escapes from her cage and flies into a tree; but a group of poets decide that the best way to entice her down is to create a garden full of seeds, water, hiding places, and materials for building a nest.
When Blue Burt decides that he would rather stay with Wiggles than fly south for the winter, the two friends set out to prevent the seasons from changing by taping leaves back onto the tree and by planting paper flowers.