My Best Nest, a children’s picture book, is filled with vibrant and active illustrations that allow the reader to follow a female Purple Martin during her first day of nest building. This entertaining and educational story, told in rhyme, starts with a vibrant dawn and ends with a bird’s gaping yawn. A short natural history section is included for parents, grandparents and teachers. Readers familiar with this avian species will be delighted to have a children’s picture book on this popular backyard songster and aerialist. A portion of the sale of this book will go to migratory songbird conservation.