Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden Parrot More than three thousand years

More than three thousand years ago

pollination

--Roger Sutton

author of National Book Award Finalist Hey

and fashions bold orange wings to become a butterfly child

Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden Parrot More than three thousand years"Smith spins a quietly moving narrative Wada's large scale woodblock style illustrations are a perfect complement to the story's restrained text The graceful way in which this book handles a sensitive and serious subject makes it a first purchase." School Library Journal When the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father . . . and his voice. The entire village is silenced by grief, and the young child's anger at the ocean grows. Then