Hawk, I'm Your Brother

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Genre: Science and Nature - Environmental Conservation and Protection; Hawks; Children: Grades 3-4; Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction; Nature - Environmental Conservation and Protection; Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General; Fiction; Flight;

Average Review: 5 stars

Review: Caldecott for line drawings; text for imagination : My five-year-old son loves to think about flying with hawks and loves to think about having a hawk for a brother. He gets upset with Rudy Soto (the main character of this book) for taking a hawk chick from its nest, but enjoys the end when he sets him free and the hawk and the boy "talk" back and forth to each other. Like Rudy, my son thinks maybe there are some people out there who really do know how to fly... The Caldecott-winning drawings are simple line drawings that evoke the idea of flight (or being grounded on occassion). The text accents the drawings-- It is broken into many short lines, which draw the eye up to the top of the pages. It becomes a single free-verse poem of flight. The combination of the story, the exact words chosen, and the pictures have let to many discussions with my son already and he has only had this book for a couple of weeks. Highly recommended!