King of the Sky / Nicola Davies ; illustrated by Laura Carlin.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0763695688
- 9780763695682
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Tough Topics | Davies Nicola | Available | 33111008814226 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this tale of a young boy, an old man, and a dauntless pigeon, a lyrical text and extraordinary illustrations offer a gorgeous meditation on loneliness, belonging, and home.
A young Italian boy has moved to the Welsh hills with his family. He feels isolated and unhappy, a stranger in a strange land. It is only when he makes an unlikely friend, an old man who lets him fly one of his pigeons in a race, that he learns how he can belong. Nicola Davies's beautiful story -- an immigrant's tale with powerful resonance in our troubled times -- is illustrated by an artist who makes the world anew with every picture.
Elementary Grade
When a young boy moves from his home in Italy to Wales, the only thing that cheers him up are the racing pigeons that Mr. Evans keeps in a loft behind his house.