The shy bird' is a funny children's book by the duo behind 'Penny and Pluis in Ancient Egypt' and 'Penny and Pluis with the Vikings'. Illustrator Liset Celie creates a beauty of cheerful birds and Jan Paul Schutten transforms 'hebban olla vogala' into a comic picture book. There is a lot of noise in the forest: all the birds are building a nest, whistling loudly. Not yet the little greenfinch. He is too shy to ask the female greenfinch if she wants to start a litter with him. He asks the blackbird for help, but with all that chattering she misunderstands him! And the jackdaw also hears something completely different from what the blackbird says. And the rook doesn't understand the jackdaw again... Soon everyone flies in a long stream through the forest, over the meadow, the estate and to the beach. With the shy greenfinch at the back. Will it still be okay?