Grandmother's Pigeon
When grandmother sails away, she leaves behind a collection of birds' nest--and three eggs in one nest miraculously begin to hatch out passenger pigeon chicks.
"Calling this imaginative story "magical from beginning to end," PW's starred review praised Erdrich's "serene invocation of breathtaking imagery" and LaMarche's "evocative" art." -- Publisher's Weekly
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Amazon.com Review
The mystical and the natural blend superbly in this first children's book by the accomplished literary novelist Louise Erdrich. The eccentric, well-traveled grandmother of two young kids decamps in mid-vacation, riding a porpoise to Greenland and leaving behind a trove of strange treasures and artifacts including a collection of bird's nests and three old eggs which hatch, marvelously, into passenger pigeons.Erdrich wields her Native American ancestry and her worldiness--Grandmother owns an original Klee--to give young readers a sense of the world's wonders and the wisdom of the elders, the old wisdom of the natural cycles that we are losing. A letter from Grandmother, promising to return, winds up this fetching tale.
Product Details
| Recommended Age | 4 - 9 |
|---|---|
| Author | Louise Erdrich |
| ISBN | 0786812044 |
| Publication Date | May 30, 1999 |
| Publisher | Hyperion |
| Language | English |