DENVER- Every 4-year-old child in Colorado is going to get a new book for free this spring. It's about a small bird who is too grumpy to face the day but, then his friends make him feel special. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A giveaway of more than 75,000 copies of Jeremy Tankard’s “Grumpy Bird” to Colorado 4-year-olds began Monday through the 2014 One Book 4 Colorado program.

Anyone can sympathize with a blue bird who wakes up on the wrong side of the nest. Bird, whose rounded head is outlined in a thick swath of ink, squeezes one eye shut while scowling with the other. He ...

Bird wakes up grumpy. Too grumpy to eat, play-or even fly. "Looks like I'm walking today," says Bird grumpily. All of this grumpy walking piques the interest of his friends and soon Sheep, Rabbit, ...