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King of the Sky

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TLDR: You're safe — there are no nefarious "third parties" lurking on my watch or shedding crumbs of the "cookies" the rest of the internet uses. In a story full of hope against adversity, King of the Sky tells how flying a homing pigeon helps a young boy comes to terms with his life in a strange country far, far from home.

Quiet, tender, and profound, this window into immigration offers an intimate understanding of just what it means to come home.The boy is lonely and everywhere he looks around him makes him feel like he doesn’t belong in this country. She ‘ considers the strangeness of new places, especially their smells, and the simple acts that can make us feel part of a new community.

An Editor’s Choice in hardback, the story of a young immigrant boy and an old man who races pigeons offers a very humane and timely slant on current world events. It’s just my personal opinion but this book wouldn’t have stood out for me to read when I was younger. I love the idea of friendships between the old and the young, they are great the older sharing wisdom with the young and the young bringing life and vitality to the older, and they work well in books, it is a shame we are so suspicious and negative that in real life the old man here would probably be shamed, degraded and put on one of the shonky current bun (read news) shows on nightly TV. And the two together unveil textures of friendship, loneliness, belonging, and the trials and triumphs that shape a life.Observer * "An Editor's Choice in hardback, the story of a young immigrant boy and an old man who races pigeons offers a very humane and timely slant on current world events.

Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Kirkus * "It is a book filled with foggy skies and dominated by struggle, and yet it spells out the miracle of the homing pigeon's instinct and its metaphorical force. Laura Carlin’s soft-focus illustrations convey flight, solitude, companionship, smog, landscape and memory with an elegiac beauty. We also should be wise enough to figure out the commitment of people who we are going to intend for the rest of our life. Perhaps you’re wondering where all the fluffy bunnies and bears are in this week’s Good to Read recommendation?From places far away, places that they’d never been, the pigeons flew home straight and fast as arrows. First, with the grey, rainy landscape that one finds in Wales, and also in row houses so common in mining villages like the one my dad grew up in, and the image of boy and man sitting at the table eating Mrs. About the Author: Graduating with a degree in zoology, Nicola once worked as a presenter on the television programme The Really Wild Show.

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