Karrick · Red-capped Robin · Illustration by Liz Daniljchenko
Conversations
With Birds
With Birds
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Three streams — each with its own voice, audience, and rhythm. Click through to the one that calls.
Illustrated stories for primary-age readers, each paired with printable activity media — field sheets, colouring pages, simple observation journals. Written and illustrated by Liz Daniljchenko, early childhood educator.
No. 1
The cheeky black-and-white bird every Australian child has met. Illustrated story + activity pack.
No. 2
The dawn laugh, the gum tree, the life of the largest kingfisher on Earth. Illustrated story + activity pack.
No. 3
The best singer in the garden, and the most misunderstood. Illustrated story + activity pack.
The Field Naturalist Series is being prepared for release. When titles are available to buy — as downloadable illustrated storybook + activity pack — they will appear here. Subscribe for updates.
Eleven chapters of a Bar-tailed Godwit who learned English from wharfies and court transcripts. By turns funny, furious, and painfully accurate. One chapter — The Artemis Chronicle — is complete and free to read right now. Ten more are being written.
A Bar-tailed Godwit and an AI tracker called ARTEMIS. Eleven thousand kilometres, nine days, the Pacific. An argument about whether the bird or the data owns the flight.
Read the Chronicle →Contemplative stories in the voice of real birds in real places. One bird, one week, one landscape — told as the bird would tell it. Conceived as a hardcover series. The first titles are being drafted.
Forthcoming
A nine-gram bird with the biggest voice in the woodland. Three eggs, a rival male, a snake in the night, and a week that decides everything. Meet Karrick already in our Conversations.
Forthcoming
A Grey-tailed Tattler on her fourth year at Moreton Bay. The science of flyway, the social life of a mudflat, and the quiet weight of doing it again.
Forthcoming
Royal Spoonbills are patient. A year in the life of one — shallows, sunrises, and the careful sweep of a bill that has been doing this for forty million years.
The Told by Birds titles will be published first as digital editions, with a view to hardcover compilations in due course. Meet the characters →