"Grumpy Bird" by Jeremy Tankard has been chosen as the 2014 pick for One Book 4 Colorado. More than 75,000 copies will be given away starting April 7.

Grumpy Bird Jeremy Tankard, . . Scholastic, $12.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-439-85147-3 Anyone can sympathize with a blue bird who wakes up on the wrong side of the nest.

Bird wakes up grumpy. Too grumpy to eat, play-or even fly. "Looks like I'm walking today," says Bird grumpily. All of this grumpy walking piques the interest of his friends and soon Sheep, Rabbit ...

Grumpy Bird (By Jeremy Tankard. Scholastic, 28 pp, $15.99) Bird is having one of those days, and nothing, not even companionship from Sheep, Rabbit, and Raccoon can help–at least for a while ...

Fans of the other Bird books (Boo Hoo Bird, Grumpy Bird) will delight in this latest addition to the series, which contains all the Tankard hallmarks readers look forward to: visually stimulating ...

Grumpy Crestie at his chateaux in Bryanston. Photo: Supplied/ Lynne Wilde Our local bird celebrity, Grumpy Crestie from Lynne Wilde’s backyard in Bryanston has just debuted in his own book ...

American Repertory Ballet will present a free performance of "Grumpy Bird," a children's ballet, choreographed by Matthew Keefe, at the Clark Public Library on Monday, April 20 at 4 p.m.

“grumpy bird” More than 75,000 copies of author and illustrator Jeremy Tankard’s “Grumpy Bird,” will be given away as the 2014 choice of One Book 4 Colorado.