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by: Margaret Wise Brown
Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780201091670
ISBN: 0201091674
Label: Harper & Row
Manufacturer: Harper & Row
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 45
Publication Date: 1985-01
Publisher: Harper & Row
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Sales Rank: 2404293
Studio: Harper & Row
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Product Description:
When they find a dead bird, a group of children bury it in the woods, sing a song to it, and put flowers on the grave.
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Rating: - Touching, Beautiful, Cheap Story
Such thick deep complicated thoughts were projected through this modern masterpiece. The short title has an underlying thought on society, The Dead Bird. Ah sweet bliss this book touched my heart. Extremely disturbing to some, but they have not the depth or attention span to understand this new Faulknerian. With its joycean techniques and proustian redoolence. This book truely teaches a lesson all of us learn someday the hard way. This book fattens my shelf with its gurth of wisdom. BUY THIS BOOK.
Rating: - ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS!
In 1964 I found this book in a library in Augsburg, Germany while searching for a way to explain to my 5 year old daughter the sudden death of her 3 month old brother. I checked the book out and read it to her that afternoon. The simple story of a group of children finding the dead bird and burying it with a little, sincere and heart-felt ceremony was comforting to her, and with the last picture of the children playing nearby and falling leaves beginning to cover the little grave she was able to ... Read More
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