The blue jay gets its due in this sharply written appreciation of the bird s critically important symbiotic relationship with oak trees. . . .Soft pen, ink, and colored pencil renderings have a fittingly feathered texture that enhances the careful detailing used to capture the birds and plant life alike. . . .an admiring and conscientious portrait. . . .
Publishers Weekly

Street and Hunter have created a title that is educational and visually stunning. Elegant language, particularly the occasional use of shape poetry, supplements the serene narrative. . . .A recommended purchase anywhere nature lovers and animal fanatics abound.
School Library Journal

Active verbs . . . and elegant imagery . . . add resonance. . . .Hunter s soft and subtle pen, ink, and colored pencil illustrations, both close-ups and from a distance, and from high and low perspectives alike, are as lyrical and lovely as the text.An eloquently told story of symbiosis.
Kirkus Reviews

This beautiful book cleverly covers a full year of the amazing arrangement, with attractive colored-pencil illustrations displaying each season in splendid detail. . . . An outstanding observation of a remarkable reciprocal relationship in the natural world.
Booklist

Street s simple, gentle text uses repetition and onomatopoeia as well as accurate scientific vocabulary to bring young people in on the secret. . . . Readers who may never have thought much about either acorns or blue jays will come away enchanted by the depiction of what the author explains in a closing note is an example of mutualism.
The Horn Book