This collection tells little stories on the piano, written for some very young pianists. Each title sets a musical and technical challenge. Individual pieces may be put together to tell a longer story.The pieces are ordered progressively, with some requiring simple preliminary exercises. Easy to start with (using grace notes, playing legato and staccato), they become gradually more demanding as different fingerings, pedal use, phrasing and dynamics are introduced. Articulation, phrasing and tempo markings in this edition represent one possible interpretation, they may be changed or varied at will. The composer is delighted for her creative work to be developed further: titles presented in two versions give examples of this, showing that the bird can shimmer in different colours.

Pitter-Patter - Sparrow Song - Leaf in the Wind (to Leyla Ida Dahlhaus) - Secret (for Ronja Blechschmidt) - Joker (for Laura Bechschmidt) - Passing Bird (for Julius Thöming) - Crystal Ball - Cloudy Sky (Melodic Version) - Cloudy Sky (Fifth-third accompaniment) - For Benedikt - Big Wave (Stormy, with fifths) - Big Wave (Coming in-going out) - Big Wave (Raging) - The Hen, or: Did the Rooster Lay an Egg? - The Chick - Sofly Falls the Snow - Snowy Owl: Are you Sleeping - Little Whirlwind, Study for Michelle (In eight notes) - Little Whirlwind, Study for Michelle (In chords) - Stinging Nettle - Race, Study for Benedikt - Evening Sky (for Christa Walter) - Flying Bird