Amy Tan’s charming The Backyard Bird Chronicles is an illustrated nature journal covering a span of five years, during which Tan observed and drew the dramas of scrub jays, owls, crows, chickadees, pygmy nuthatches, goldfinches, hummingbirds, and dark-eyed juncos, among many other birds. Here are a few of the images from the book.
—The Editors
Excerpted from The Backyard Bird Chronicles, by Amy Tan. Published by Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. © 2024 Amy Tan. All rights reserved.
Join us on Thursday, September 18, at 5 p.m. Pacific time, when Amy Tan will sit down with CBC host John Freeman and special guest John Muir Laws to discuss The Backyard Bird Chronicles. Register for the Zoom conversation here.
