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- ISBN 9780008781590
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 139 x 190mm
- Publication Date: 12 Mar 2026
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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52 beautiful and quirky watercolour drawings and a linguistic curio for every week of the year
Are you a culture vulture?
Where do you stand in the pecking order?
Author of the bestselling Our Garden Birds Matt Sewell brings his signature whimsical artistry to the world of language in A Little Bird Told Me.
This delightful collection combines Sewell’s evocative, humorous illustrations with an exploration of the weird and wonderful world of animal phrases.
Are you ready to explore the origins, meanings and interpretations of idioms we use every day, and look at some lovely pictures?
Why not kill two birds with one stone?
Matt Sewell is an avid ornithologist and author of the bestselling books Our Garden Birds, Owls, A Charm of Goldfinches and the Atlas Of Amazing Birds. His range of children's books includes Dinosaurs and Forgotten Beasts. He has illustrated for the Guardian, the National Trust, Barbour, the V&A, and Levis and painted walls for Greenpeace, the BBC’s Springwatch and Countryfile, Helly Hansen, Puma and the RSPB. His artwork has been exhibited in London, New York, Tokyo and Paris. He lives in Shrewsbury with his wife and two children.
