"Birds," which opened Sunday, is a beautiful mash-up of music, physical theater, pop-culture allusions and ancient Persian poetry. It is not, in its own right, a profoundly memorable play.

The Conference of the Birds Retold by Alexis York Lumbard, illus. by Demi. Wisdom Tales, $19.95 (44p) ISBN 978-1-937786-02-1 ...

The pages in Peter Sis’ new illustrated book aren’t numbered, so I counted them. I didn’t really need an accurate figure — the counting was just an excuse to leaf through the book’s textured pages, ...

In 1909, two Londoners were commissioned to create a book that would become one of the world’s most bedazzling. Joobin Bekhrad reveals how it ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic.

Explore NPR's poetry reviews, readings, author interviews and recommendations. In 'Birds,' Sis Makes A Dream World For Grown-Ups. ... The Conference of the Birds is Sis's first book for adults.

In The Conference of the Birds, a co-production between Inferno Theatre and Ubuntu Theater Project, a 4,800+ line Sufi epic has been adapted for the stage by Sholeh Wolpé, whose well-regarded English ...

Peter Sís' new book, "The Conference of the Birds," brings a 12th century Persian epic to life through the author/illustrator's lavish illustrations. Sís will discuss his book Tuesday at the ...

Book Review: The Conference Of The Birds by Peter Sis By Richard Marcus , BLOGCRITICS.ORG Nov 2, 2011 There's a fine line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation.

He speaks his own language through all of his books. But The Conference of Birds in particular has a distinctly Sis-ian sense of dislocation and an equally typical return to hope, discovered when ...

Andrea Hollander is the author of four books of poetry, most recently "Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems, 1982-2012," and the winner of two poetry fellowships from the National ...

Ransom Riggs gets right down to it when asked what he can tease about The Conference of the Birds, the fifth book in his best-selling Miss Peregrine series, landing early next year.Coming off the ...