Mrs. Ackley’S Birds

By Robbie Everage and Paige Parker Byard

Mrs. Bernie Ackley loves all the birds who come to visit her yard. She makes tasty bird cakes for them to eat, and they always gather in the birdbath in the afternoon.

Now Mrs. Ackley wants to sell her house, the place she has lived for forty years. But before she can do so, shell need to clean up the outside of the house. How will she ever manage to do it? Downy the woodpecker sees a magazine clipping Mrs. Ackley has left outside, and right then he decides that he and the other birds should pay her back for all of her kindness. Theyll work together and fix up her yard! With the help of a few other creatures, like Moley the Mole and LaRue the poodle, they can take the messy yard and turn it into something really beautiful.

In this childrens story, a group of birds living in an elderly ladys backyard decide to help her out by cleaning it up.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Jan 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9781480841338

Robbie Everage

Paige Parker Byard was raised in California, but found herself through marriage living in a small, quaint town in Indiana. Now retired, she loves to garden, something that inspires her writing.

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Archway Publishing rev. date: 1/16/2017

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This book is

dedicated to my grandchildren Adam and Lauren Huntington. Who are avid readers. I wrote this one for them. Thank you for your encouragement.

A special thanks to my wonderful friends.

I could not have done this book without them.

Illustrations by Robbie Everage

Editing by Nancy Durham

S itting in

her kitchen looking out the window, Mrs. Bernie Ackley thumbed through her garden magazines. Bernie always dreamed of her yard looking like the ones in her magazines. Now she had decided to put her little bungalow house up for sale.

Bernie had