On YouTube
The read-aloud with the words and pictures, free, ready to play on your living room television. Each chapter is text-on-screen, with the text already brought up to date.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
A Kindred Thicket Revised Edition.
A full year of birds as Charlotte Mason nature study, read aloud chapter by chapter, with the science brought up to date, free bird cards, and applied map work where your child draws the bird's range.
Ways to experience The Burgess Bird Book for Children
The reading is free, whichever way you use it. The guides work alongside it.
In the Listening GroveComing soon
The The Burgess Bird Book for Children audiobook on a page, structured the Charlotte Mason way, so you can listen together with no video to watch.
See the GroveOn YotoComing soon
For the car or bedtime, a free Kindred Thicket audio pack compatible with the Yoto app, so the same narration travels with your family.
See the Yoto packsThe materials
We do the planning. The read-aloud is free, and the guides bring the rest of the lesson together: the copywork, applied map work, object study, and accuracy notes, prepared for you.
Complete Companion Guide
The Lesson Guide plus copywork at three levels, applied map work where your child draws the bird's range, object study, and plain accuracy notes, bundled for every chapter.
Coming soonLesson Guide
The vocabulary and narration support for every chapter, the open-and-go helps that make each lesson easy to lead.
Coming soonCopywork
Verbatim passages from the reading at three graduated levels, in both print and cursive, so handwriting practice stays connected to the birds your child is already meeting.
Coming soonBonus Set
FreeFree bird cards and coloring pages for the whole book, with the Kindred Thicket email list.
Get the free setQuestions about The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Is it free?
Yes. The read-aloud is free on YouTube, and the printable Bonus Set of bird cards and coloring pages is free with the Kindred Thicket email list. The Lesson Guide and Complete Companion Guide are the paid part, where the rest of the lesson is prepared for you: the copywork, applied map work, object study, and accuracy notes.
Do I need to prepare anything before we start?
No. These are open-and-go lessons. The hook, the vocabulary, and the narration support are already prepared and woven into the reading, so you press play and read along together.
Can I use this with several ages at once?
Yes. One reading serves the whole gathering, and each child narrates in her own way, whether she is five or thirteen.
What is a Kindred Thicket Revised Edition?
We keep the beauty of the original living book and correct its outdated science and old bird names, with every change explained in plain accuracy notes, so what your child learns matches what today's naturalists know.
We do the planning. The books come alive. Your child does the learning.
Last updated June 15, 2026