TY  - BOOK
AU  - Almond,David
AU  - Lynch,P.J.
TI  - Kevin and the blackbirds
SN  - 9781536238075 :
AV  - PZ7.A448 Kev 2024
U1  - [E] 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Somerville, Massachusetts
PB  - Candlewick Press
KW  - Monasteries
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Blackbirds
KW  - Boys
KW  - Fiction
KW  - JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Birds
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations
KW  - JUVENILE FICTION / Imagination & Play
N1  - 3-6; Brodart; P-1; Brodart
N2  - Publisher Annotation: In lean times, a boy's parents send him to a monastery to be cared for. After study and prayer, the monks let young Kevin run and play in the woods and fields. But the time comes when he must set aside childish ways. Shut in his lonely cell, yearning for home and the freedom of the outdoors, Kevin reaches through the window toward the light as two blackbirds land in and feather the nest of his hands. Kevin waits, day after day, for their eggs to hatch, and it's not until the chicks spread tiny wings and fly off-three new wild things gone out into the world-that he can rest and the monks can see what they must do. In a moving first collaboration, a Hans Christian Andersen Award winner and a two-time Kate Greenaway Medal winner transform a traditional Irish tale-about the love of nature and the mercies of letting go-and make it soar
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