Book description
A Caldecott Honor book from the highly acclaimed author and illustrator of Corduroy!
Sid the pigeon is very choosy about finding just the right home in the magnificent city of san Francisco. And find it he does, in the loop of a huge b in an electric sign high up…
Why read it?
1 author picked Fly High, Fly Low as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book was a favorite from my own childhood and, more recently, I loved reading it to my own kids. The story has just the right amount of drama as the father bird searches high and low for his missing family. I also think it’s fun to see a story about birds with a predominantly urban setting (it is about pigeons living in San Francisco), though I may be biased because it’s set near where I live today.
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