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Flora and the Flamingo
By Molly Idle
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2013. Picture book.

In this wordless book, a friendship develops between a girl named Flora and a graceful flamingo, as they learn to dance together.


By Moira Butterfield
Illustrated by Claudia Boldt
London, UK: Welbeck Editions, 2020. Informational.

Learn how to move and groove like the animals do with this bright, fun and silly book aimed at younger readers to engage them in movement!


By Sue Graves
Illustrated by Trevor Dunton
New York: Franklin Watts, 2022. Informational.

Flamingo is scared of many things, such as spiders, the dark, and getting lost, but his grandfather shows him how to be brave, and Flamingo explains his fears to his friends so they can all be brave together.


By Laura James
Illustrated by Emily Fox
New York: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2019. Intermediate.

Flamingo detective Fabio and his giraffe associate, Gilbert, investigate when a singing hippopotamus disappears during auditions for a talent show being staged to save the failing Hotel Royale.


By Jonathan London
Illustrated by Kristina Rodanas
Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Children, 2008. Informational.

Watch a flamingo hatch from its egg until it becomes a full-grown flamingo.


By Guojing
New York: Random House Studio, 2022. Graphic novel.

A little girl arrives, excited for a beachy vacation with her Lao Lao. The girl and her grandmother search for shells, chase crabs, and play in the sea, but when the girl finds an exquisite flamingo feather in her grandmother's living room, her vacation turns into something fantastical.


By Heidi E. Y. Stemple
Illustrated by Aaron Spurgeon
New York: Simon Spotlight, 2022. Easy reader.

Birds of different feathers play bingo together, and watch the balls spin as they all hope to win.


By Andrée Poulin
Illustrated by Lucille Danis Drouot
Toronto, ON: Pajama Press, 2020. Picture book.

A young flamingo named Filippo becomes self-conscious when other animals refuse to play with him because he is pink. He struggles to be accepted and to accept himself. Finally, with encouragement from family members and a kind-hearted lemur, Filippo learns to love himself for who he is.
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