Catching Flight: Soaring on the Wings of Birds

Gorgeous.

"Catching Flight is a beautiful and poetic breath of wind beneath the imaginative wings of any child who reads it."—Scott Weidensaul, New York Times bestselling author of A World on the Wing and Living on the Wind

"Catching Flight captures the longing to fly free like birds in perfect whimsy—the kind of whimsy that only nature can provide. The story toggles on a beautifully balanced line between fact and emotion with illustrations to match. The art provides a clear understanding of the various birds included, what they look like, how they behave while at the same time, being transported to a warm and inviting dream."—Jane Kim, Ink Dwell

"This picture book is really about more than birds; it's an exhortation to partake in the joys that life has to offer, even through its inevitable storms—if you dare to spread your wings and fly."—Brian Lies, Caldecott Honor author-illustrator of The Rough Patch

"It's hard to tell which I love more: the poetic meditation on moving forward into each new day with joy, confidence, and curiosity, or lingering in each page with the gorgeously rendered birds. I guess, I'll just have to read it again. And again. And again.—Heidi E.Y. Stemple, author of Counting Birds and Whose Nest Is Best?

"Beautifully illustrated birds fly off the page and straight into your heart, each with a unique message of hope, inspiration, courage, and resilience."—Liz Clayton Fuller, American Birding Association Artist of the Year, 2023