Kathleen Hardcastle Moeller

A girl’s observations and impressions of the birds that visit a
barn throughout the day.
■ Realistic fiction narrative
■ First person
■ Tense changes from past to present
■ Mood in text and illustrations
■ Sequence, prepositional phrases of time
■ Detailed description of appearance and impressions
■ Multiple meanings of “as”—simile, conjunction, time
determinant
■ Most sentences have an introductory phrase
■ Open-ended