Bird to Bird is based on a true story of recycled timber that dates back to a convict ship. A bird drops a seed on the floor of the forest, it grows into a tree. The tree is then cut down and the lumber sent to London. The wood is used to build beds on a convict boat that sails to Australia. It then becomes a loom, then part of a kitchen until finally it is carved by a craftsman into a beautiful bird.

Author Biography

Claire Saxby is an award-winning and best-selling picture book author. Her two previous Nature Storybooks, Big Red Kangaroo (2013) and Emu (2014) both illustrated by Graham Byrne have won numerous awards. Big Red Kangaroo was a 2014 CBCA Notable Book, and won the CBCA Crichton Award for illustration, and Emu was short-listed for 2015 CBCA Eve Pownall Award and won the Environment Award for Children's Literature. Claire lives in Melbourne, where she works part-time in a bookshop. Her latest book is Koala, illustrated by Julie Vivas.