by Nicola Davies, Laura Carlin (Illustrator)

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 New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2017

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.
 

ISBN-13: 9780763695682
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication date: 06/13/2017
Pages:48
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 4 - 8 Years

Books- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration & Immigration 
Books - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational 
Books - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Birds

-Immigrants	-Friendship
-Moving, Household	-Homesickness
-Wales	-Racing pigeons