Coo resolves to get down off the roof and hand Burr over. Coo is heartsick.īut then she remembers that there is a human who comes to feed the flock sometimes in the alley below, and this person has taken sick birds in the past and returned them well. One day a hawk attacks, and Burr is injured. One particular bird, Burr, is the one who urged the flock to adopt her in the first place and has always taken care of her. The birds can’t find all the food she needs and also feed themselves.
She’s growing, and now she’s hungry all the time. In the winter she curls up in a pile of newspapers and with a blanket of birds who keep her warm. She speaks their pigeon language, which has its own unusual way of arranging words, and never leaves the roof. The pigeons forage for their little human, feeding her doughnuts from a dumpster. They grab her blankets and lift her up to the rooftop where they live in a dovecote, a little structure on the roof of the factory building.
I guarantee you’ll never see pigeons in quite the same way again.Ī flock of pigeons in New York finds a baby abandoned on a doorstep. It’s a sweet story by the end of it, you too will want to learn pigeon-language. Coo by Kaela Noel, a middle-grade tale, tells the story of a girl raised by pigeons.
0 kommentar(er)
