For as long as Saanvi can remember, she has been friends with her elderly neighbor Helen. They play cards and garden together and, especially, care for the wild birds that visit Helenâs yard. When Helen dies suddenly, a âFor Saleâ sign goes up, and movers arrive, emptying the house of its furniture and stripping the yard of its birdfeeders. The sparrows and hummingbirds disappear.
Soon a bulldozer tears down Helenâs house. All winter, Saanvi walks numbly past the property as developers begin to build condos. Then one spring day, amid the dust and turmoil of construction, she finds a weathered playing card wedged between two rocks. She holds it to her chest, and finally sobs.
After a tearful night, Saanvi wakes inspired. She slathers peanut butter on pinecones to hang from tree branches, hammers together a birdhouse from scrap wood and drags a kitchen stool outside to hold a bowl of water. Finally, she retrieves a nest that has been unraveling on Helenâs old property and places it in a tree in her own yard. Saanviâs yard soon fills with Helenâs birds. They have a home again.
This beautifully illustrated, wordless graphic novel shows Saanviâs journey through close friendship, then hollowing loss and change, until she finally finds hope.
Categories:
- Children's Books
- Science, Nature & How It Works
- Nature
- Environment
- Nature
- Science, Nature & How It Works
Publisher : Groundwood Books
Author : Cassidy, Sara
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2019-10-17
Number Of Pages : 44
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1773060384
ISBN-13 : 9781773060385
Item weight : 0.84 lb
Dimensions : 0.5 in x 8.5 in x 9.84 in
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