When Agnes caws by Candace Fleming

illustrated by Giselle Potter
This is a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek tale about a young girl who can call any bird. She is sent to the peaks of the Himalayas in search of the rare pink footed duck and pursued by a villain who wants the bird for himself (stuffed, of course). The book is filled with ridiculously silly bird calls and I at least have a lot of fun hamming them up.