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K-Gr 3—Barnett offers an inspired take on the game of Telephone, where a simple sentence is twisted and confused as it passes from person to person. In this case, a mismatched flock of birds perched on a wire (a telephone wire, in fact) are responsible for passing a message from a mother pigeon to her son. Each bird has a unique interest that influences its ver...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The opening, wordless spread shows a neighborhood with cozy homes, children at play, and happy pets, while above it all a telephone wire hosts an unusual assortment of birds, shown as blobby silhouettes. The page-turn zooms in to show a scene on the wire: an aproned pigeon is directing a young cardinal holding a baseball bat to "tell Peter: Fly home for dinner." A wacky game of telephone -- on the telephone wire -- ensues, as a goose in an aviator helmet, a comic boo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A pigeon, one of an unusual assortment of birds on a telephone wire, directs a cardinal to "tell Peter: Fly home for dinner." A ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More