A review by calistareads
Hawk, I'm Your Brother by Byrd Baylor

4.0

I’ve become such a fan of Byrd Baylor’s art. Fantastic! This is a poem with minimal black and white sketches to tell a story about a love for flying. Rudy loves the sky and birds and from the time he can speak he asked everyone when he got to learn to fly. He longed for the sky.

One day, he stole a baby hawk from a nest and raised the hawk. It longed for the sky too. After the summer, he freed the bird and he had a connection with it then and he got to fly through the bird.

It’s a lovely story, really. It’s about native people’s and it looks like a desert area of the southwest. There are always different ways of doing something.

The niece thought this was a lovely story. She loved some of the language. She also thought the boy was brave and kind. She gave this 4 stars. The nephew thought having a hawk would be really cool too. He enjoyed the story also. He gave this 3 stars.