Award winning Lois Lowry pens an intimate story between father and child in Crow Call. The stunning illustrations by Bagram Ibatoulline's have a softness that reflects this gentle relationship. A daughter and her dad set out to hunt crows in Pennsylvania farmland country. One-on-one times like this are--possibly rare--opportunities to ponder big questions, such as "Daddy . . . were you scared in the war?" Picture books encourage such discussion. For a moment, the innocent and the veteran walk in one another's shoes and comprehend the world in a new way.
Midwest Science has a worksheet, Free Bird Documentary (Crows) to accompany a YouTube video. A to Zebra has a Bird Anatomy Worksheet. Sovenok has Sound Bingo Birds.
