The facing page had a little picture in the upper left, consisting of more 
vines and flowers wrapped around a giant egg-shaped letter. But the rest of 
that page was nothing but tiny black letters without decoration. Nell turned it 
and found two more pages of letters, though a couple of them were big ones with 
pictures drawn around them. She turned another page and found another picture. 
In this one, the little girl had set aside her book and was talking to a big 
black bird
that had apparently gotten its foot tangled up in the vines overhead. She 
flipped another page.