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Grandmother's Pigeon, Hardback Book

Grandmother's Pigeon Hardback

Illustrated by Jim LaMarche

Hardback

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A grandmother's sudden departure leaves her family with an even more puzzling, and wondrous, surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award-winning author-at last back in print Grandmother was a mysterious woman.

She could heal with a touch (or with a cup of very bitter tea) or scare off a vicious dog with a look.

But when she hitches a ride to Greenland on a passing porpoise, her family is still surprised-and then concerned.

The mystery deepens when, among Grandmother's collection of birds' nests, the family discovers a clutch of eggs hatching.

Out pop three passenger pigeons-birds of a species long extinct, supposedly. Through the words of a curious grandchild, and Jim LaMarche's evocative artwork, Grandmother's legacy unfolds in these pages in all its peculiarity and charm.

Mixing whimsy and gravity with a little science and history, the tale of the family's loss, and marvelous find, summons a world as intriguing as it is perfectly clear-a world animated by Louise Erdrich's storytelling magic, inviting readers young and old to follow Grandmother, and to wonder.

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