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San Souci, Robert D.

The Birds of Killingworth: Based on a Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

32 pp. | Dial | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2111-0 $$16.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root. Sweet Almira Case objects when her miserly father decides to kill all the songbirds to keep them from stealing crops. With the help of the schoolmaster and his students, Almira rescues the orphaned fledglings--luckily so, because with the birds gone, the insects take over. The somewhat preachy narrative gets an able assist from the engaging watercolor and pencil illustrations of a colonial town.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

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