Kaela Noel

Kaela Noel's The Cats of Silver Crescent is exactly the sort of book I would have loved in late grade school or Junior High. It has a bookish girl for a heroine, her budding friendship with a goth girl, talking cats who wear clothing and read books, a great-aunt who appears not to find anything too unlikely to be believed (in a good way), and a creepy town with a creepy founder hoping to return from the dead. The build-up here is slow, the end a bit rushed, but it offers exactly the kind of fantasy I've always found delightful.

I received a free electronic review copy of this title from the publisher; the opinions are my own.… (més)

Coo is about a little girl who, for the first ten years of her life, was raised by pigeons. Abandoned as a baby, the pigeons carried her to the top of their roof and took care of her. One day though, a hawk injured Burr, the pigeon that means the most to Coo. She goes down to the ground for the first time to find Tully, a retired postal worker who feeds Coo's flock from time to time and has helped heal injured birds. Tully takes Coo under her wings, allowing Coo to experience what it is like to have constant warmth, safety, food, and human relationships. But just as Coo is starting to blossom, she learns not all humans are as nice and loving as Tully and some are planning she must help stop.

I loved Coo's world - both with the pigeons and with Tully. Kaela Noel has an amazing talent at making her writing feel all warm and cozy. Even if it was in the middle of the blizzard, I could still feel the love in Coo's life.

It's a cute and adorable story that will make you feel good inside. I don't see many books with pigeons as such characters as you do here. You won't be disappointed.… (més)

A flock of pigeons rescues an abandoned baby girl and raises her. How can you not love a story that begins like this? Coo is the abandoned girl who grows up with no human contact in an abandoned rooftop rookery with her pigeon family. When she's discovered one day and brought back to civilization, she learns about human warmth and friendship for the first time, but also a dangerous plot against the pigeons in the city. Coo must marshall her resources to save her beloved pigeons while navigating new human relationships.… (més)