Reviews

Grandmother's Pigeon by Jim LaMarche, Louise Erdrich

xsleepyshadows's review

5.0

A magical journey, it had me guessing if the grandmother was magic type or if it was all in the kids imagination. After missing their grandmother the family spend time in her room and find that some endangered pigeon had hatched? Confused, the family takes care of the pigeons and contact a scientists (the scientists are not mean, but the media bothers the family after the news gets out). After the kids/family seeing the conditions weren't ideal for these pigeons that want to be free. The kids leave a note for the pigeons to carry and set them free. Surprised, they get a note back...

The art is fantastic and the story really captured my imagination.

optimaggie's review

5.0

I loved this book. It has this lovely magical unexpectedness to it right along with the ordinary. This book makes you want to believe in the impossible and improbable and to be (or at least know) the kind of grandmother who could numb a bruise with her gentle touch as well as ride a porpoise to Greenland! We read this book for our Greenland studies and as it turns out this book has next to nothing to do with Greenland, but I am happy that we read it all the same.