New York: Gulliver Books / Harcourt, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A selection of bird stories from around the world collected by Howard Norman and illustrated in beautiful full color (with colored pencil and watercolor on Bristol board) by Caldecott award-winning artists Leo and Diane Dillon (Leo was the first Black US American to receive this award). SIGNED on the title page by both Leo and Diane Dillon. Includes a 4 pp note by Norman about the stories and the selection process - "laughter, argument, friendship." Slightly oblong format. ix, 78 pp. ISBN: 0-152019820.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A charming story, a collaboration between an award winning writer and illustrator. The New York Times named this one of the 10 best illustrated books of the year and it described it as having " so much depth: a fearful ghost, a take-charge girl, and interracial friendship, and a tale in which fear is integrally and sweetly tied to positive qualities of imagination." SIGNED opposite the title page by the illustrator Christian Robinson with a small drawing. The illustrations are all in shades of blue. Unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1452131566.