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The Bird

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"The Bird" is a quirky story with both humorous and poignant illustrations that takes simple, vivid narrative and a light style to relate a hermit's trials with bird-company, and the alternative: loneliness. This tale combines a charming surface myth connected to the story of Noah and the ark with an underlying proverb for today about accepting what comes along with life and the living. Kids will love the colorful illustrations and the "splats" (excretions) and perhaps think about how they feel and act about living with siblings. Adults will appreciate the overtones of the difficulties all humans have co-existing.(The book reminds me a little of both St. Exupery's "The Little Prince" and "The Big Orange Splot" by Daniel Manus Pinkwater.) From time to time, we can all relearn the book's cute lesson that if we want the joys brought by any friend or relative, we must accept a little dirt and/or disorder of some kind. I gave the book to my neat-freak sister and her one-year-old son to read together. It's a good thing, too, because they are moving in with me in December...

This book is great fun for the under six set that love anything that has to do with "pooh". This book is quite funny but it teaches as well as entertains. It is a story about Noah who is alone on an island with a bird. He is annoyed by the bird. But he grows to care for it. The war he has with the bird was about the bird's pooh and chirping. The bird is just being a bird. Noah has to take the bird as he/she is. When he learns to do that all the animals come on board the island with all their animal sounds and pooh too. It is NOT a direct story about Noah in the Bible. But it is fun and gives many teachable moments about accepting others and learning to live peaceably with them. It is a shame it is out of print If you can buy a used copy it is worth it!! Kids often tear and color in books any way. So don't worry about buying one used. It is worth it for the laughs, the entertainment, and the teachable moments that are by sharing not telling.