These are really great. It's a dark and disturbing tale alright (Happy Bird and that ground squirrel are downright evil!), but also very funny and you end up really feeling for Sad Bird and being glad that it seems to turn out for him okay in the end. With the penguins, of course, as the arbiters of justice and decency.

I think words would actually take something away from it - the pictures tell the story well enough on their own, and the room for interpretation is one of the things that fascinates about them.