Bird Parade Poetry With painful honesty and fearless

With painful honesty and fearless humor

ISBN-13: 978-0062265715

Inside are simple instructions that show readers how to fold pages to transform this book into a beautiful

scientists ask themselves: How can this one bird make it year after year when so many others fall

As James Wood said in The New Yorker

Bird Parade Poetry With painful honesty and fearlessA new graphic novel, Bird Parade by Patrick Loehr (with a fabulous introduction by Nathan Ballingrud) is a dark, coming of age narrative about two young boys and a gun. Set in rural Colorado, the story exposes a somber world wherein notions of strength and maturity are deeply intertwined with the mystique of firearms and family legend. The young narrators eagerness to grow up to complete a rite of passage compels him towards actions that ultimately