A review by bookgirl4ever
Hawk, I'm Your Brother by Byrd Baylor

4.0

Rudy Soto was born yearning to fly. He watches the hawks fly over the land and awaits that day that he too will fly (for despite that everyone tells him that people don't fly, Rudy is determined that one day he will). One day, Rudy spies a baby hawk in a nest and takes it home. That hawk is not happy living in capitivity, unable to fly and be free. But Rudy holds out until the end of summer, thinking that the hawk will change its mind. Hawk doesn't so Rudy does what he knows in his heart is right: he sets Hawk free. Yet, during the time Rudy and Hawk have spent together they form a bond that transcends the distance between them. Rudy is changed by this bond and vicariously flies through his brother Hawk.

Simple ink drawings convey this deep, coming of age story.

K-2.