Pelican

By Brian Wildsmith

Book Overview

When Paul finds a large egg, the farm hen reluctantly agrees to sit on it. Days later an unusual bird hatches: it is a fish loving pelican! This pelican is unique. He doesn't know how to catch fish; he just steals fish from everyone else, causing troubles wherever he goes. Frustrated, Paul's father warns Paul the pelican will be sent to the zoo! Can Paul keep the bird safe and help him learn to fish? Brian Wildsmith's startlingly beautiful, detailed illustrations enrich this heartwarming story. Most of all, young readers will delight in discovering all the intriguing scenes hidden behind the half--page flaps.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595729445
• ISBN13: 9781595729446
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Star Bright Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.4" x 12.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Had this one a long time

This is a sweet book about a boy with a pet pelican - how he protects his pelican, and how he lets him go at the end of the book. At the very VERY end we find out that the pelican, now safe in the Land of the Pelicans, knew she was a girl the whole time. She lays an egg, and presumably the story starts over again.