Joan Walsh Anglund

1926–2021 · American children's-book author & poet

Joan Walsh Anglund was a hugely popular American author and illustrator of children’s books, known for her round-faced little characters with dots for eyes and no mouths. Her debut, A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You (1958), sold millions, and she published dozens of gift books and poetry collections. The bird line appears in her 1967 verse collection A Cup of Sun.

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“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song”

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