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Overview

Young Mekhai, better known as Bird, loves to draw. With drawing you can erase the things that don't turn out right. In real life, problems aren't so easily fixed.

As Bird struggles to understand the death of his beloved grandfather and his artistic brother's decline into drug addiction, he escapes into drawing as an outlet for his emotions and imagination. Along the way, with the help of his grandfather's friend, Bird finds his own special somethin' and wings to fly.

Told with spare grace, Bird is a touching look at how a young boy copes with real-life troubles. Readers will with be heartened by Bird's quiet resilience and moved by the healing power of ...

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Overview

Young Mekhai, better known as Bird, loves to draw. With drawing you can erase the things that don't turn out right. In real life, problems aren't so easily fixed.

As Bird struggles to understand the death of his beloved grandfather and his artistic brother's decline into drug addiction, he escapes into drawing as an outlet for his emotions and imagination. Along the way, with the help of his grandfather's friend, Bird finds his own special somethin' and wings to fly.

Told with spare grace, Bird is a touching look at how a young boy copes with real-life troubles. Readers will with be heartened by Bird's quiet resilience and moved by the healing power of paper and pencil.

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In a promising debut for both Elliott and Strickland, this picture book tells a poignant story about a boy whose loving family, friends and a gift for drawing help him navigate difficult emotions surrounding the deaths of his grandfather and drug-addicted brother. A complicated weaving of impressive watercolor, gouache, charcoal and ink drawings amplifies the metaphors and action of the poetic text as it combines black-and-white with color. Never straying from believable language in casting Mehkai, the child, as narrator, Elliott skillfully unfolds the sequence of events. Both art and text nimbly play with Mehkai's nickname, Bird, beginning with the image of a shivering bird that, like his brother, seems to be blown away by a gust of wind, and continuing with Uncle Son's attempt to explain the brother's death: " 'You can fix a broken wing with a splint,/ and a bird can fly again,' he said./ 'But you can't fix a broken soul.' " The simplicity of the narrative belies the complexity of the themes; it would be a shame if the picture book format discouraged the proper audience from examining the book. Ages 8-12. (Oct.)

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Mehkai, a young African American boy called Bird, relates his feelings about the loss of his grandfather and about his grandfather's best friend Uncle Son, with whom he has a strong relationship. Uncle Son encourages Bird to be himself: "everybody got their somethin'. And that includes you." Bird likes to draw; he draws what he sees. We learn about his older brother Marcus, who used to help care for him, but he becomes involved with drugs and is soon alienated from the family and gone. To help Bird deal with his losses, Uncle Son tells him about the time when their people could fly. Drawing and thinking of Granddad and Marcus up in heaven do help Bird cope with his difficult life. Strickland's naturalistic scenes of the buildings, park benches, and tree-lined streets show us the city that forms Bird's character. He uses watercolors, gouache, charcoal and pen to generate the mood; line drawings enhance the moments of spiritual uplift. The story is serious but hopeful. Mehkai has found his "somethin'." This is an Honor book in the Lee & Low New Voices Award. Reviewer: Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781600602412
  • Publisher: Lee & Low Books, Inc.
  • Publication date: 10/28/2008
  • Pages: 48
  • Sales rank: 789,609
  • Age range: 8 - 12 Years
  • Lexile: AD720L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 7.40 (w) x 9.60 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

ZETTA ELLIOTT is a visiting professor in the African American and African Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College as well as an accomplished poet, playwright, and author. As a young girl, she loved to escape into a good book and began writing as a way to create "a world that was better than my own." Elliott lives in Brooklyn, New York. Bird, the recipient of Lee & Low's New Voices Award Honor, is her first picture book.

SHADRA STRICKLAND grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and earned her MFA at New York's School of Visual Arts "Illustration as Visual Essay" program. She currently freelances as an illustrator and a graphic designer. Like Bird, she uses drawing as a way of interpreting her world. Strickland lives in Brooklyn, New York. This is her first picture book.

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