CAW! CAW! CAW! Don't Shoot Me! CAW!

As anyone who knows me can attest, I love crows.  And magpies, and blue-jays, and really…all upstanding members of the corvidae family.  These sturdy little mischief-makers are the smarty-pants of the bird world.  And, in my opinion (sorry blue-footed booby), the most handsome. It’s no surprise that picture books about crows attract my attention, and three of those have made it to my shelves: Crow Call by Lois Lowry (illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline), Martha by Gennady Spirin, and Crows: An Old Rhyme by Heidi Holder.

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