2008, Little Brown & Co.
$14.99 HC
www.muttscomics.com
Goodreads: 4.43
my rating: Liked it a lot (4.5)
40 pgs. & endpapers
Endpapers (& all pages) recycled beige
This simple, wordless picture book is super -- sweet and quite a lovely story. It is autumn. A flock of songbirds takes off for the south and forgets one of their own, who is asleep on the ground under a tree. Along comes a cat who helps him through all sorts of strange,foreign terrain...pages and pages of a journey....until they come upon the bird's flock, resting on a telephone wire. By now the bird and cat are close friends and their parting is a meaningful one.
Yes, my fourth graders could write a lovely story to go with this. The simple beige/brown/pale yellow pages could easily be photocopied for students to use -- and even water color in the pale blues and greens that appear here and there.
(Note to self: Check out other books by this author. Are they wordless? (The Gift of Nothing, Art, Just Like Heaven, Hug Time.) "Sometimes it takes a friend to help you find your way."
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