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In this gentle, award-winning picture book, an African American boy nicknamed Bird uses drawing as a creative outlet as he struggles to make sense of his grandfathers death and his brothers drug addiction. Young Mekhai, better known as Bird, loves to draw. With drawings, he can erase the things that dont turn out right. In real life, problems arent so easily fixed.As Bird struggles to understand the death of his beloved grandfather and his older brothers drug addiction, he escapes into his art. Drawing is an outlet for Birds emotions and imagination, and provides a path to making sense of his world. In time, with the help of his grandfathers friend, Bird finds his own special somethin and wings to fly.Told with spare grace, Bird is a touching look at a young boy coping with real-life troubles. Readers will be heartened by Birds quiet resilience, and moved by the healing power of putting pencil to paper.Bird, the recipient of Lee & Lows New Voices Award Honor, is the first picture book of both Zetta Elliot and Shadra Strickland. Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent in Illustrations; Ezra Jack Keats Book Award; Best Books; Starred Review; Notable Childrens Book; Childrens Books of the Year; Celebrate with Books; Editors Favorites; Paterson Prize for Books for Young People; Starred Review; Story Telling World Award; West Virginia Childrens Choice Book AwardIn this gentle, award-winning picture book, an African American boy nicknamed Bird uses drawing as a creative outlet as he struggles to make sense of his grandfathers death and his brothers drug addiction. Young Mekhai, better known as Bird, loves to draw. With drawings, he can erase the things that dont turn out right. In real life, problems arent so easily fixed.As Bird struggles to understand the death of his beloved grandfather and his older brothers drug addiction, he escapes into his art. Drawing is an outlet for Birds emotions and imagination, and provides a path to making sense of his world. In time, with the help of his grandfathers friend, Bird finds his own special somethin and wings to fly.Told with spare grace, Bird is a touching look at a young boy coping with real-life troubles. Readers will be heartened by Birds quiet resilience, and moved by the healing power of putting pencil to paper.Bird, the recipient of Lee & Lows New Voices Award Honor, is the first picture book of both Zetta Elliot and Shadra Strickland. Coretta Scott King/John Stepto
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