Hawks

Rudy is a boy who wants to fly. In hopes that it may teach him to fly, he takes a baby hawk from its nest. He finally realizes the hawk will never fly free on a string, and lets him go.

The story leads you to think about doing the right thing versus what you might want to do, an important idea for kids to contemplate. With beautiful black and white line drawings and colorful text, this book is one to inspire deep contemplation.

Rudy Soto wishes he could fly like a bird, not like any bird though; he wants to fly like a hawk. One day Rudy steals a baby hawk right before it could learn to fly. He says that this hawk is his brother and one day they both will fly together. He keeps the hawk in a cage, and when he takes it out of the cage, he ties a string around its foot so it could fly away. One day Rudy observes how sad the hawk looks and how he's looking at the sky wishing he could soar high. Rudy finally decides that since they both can't fly together is not fair that flying is taken away from the hawk, so he lets the hawk go. At that moment when the hawk flies away, and rudy feels as if he's flying also even though his feet are touching the ground. The illustrations are done in black pen. There's also no color in any of the drawings. ( )

This book is about a boy named Rudy who wants to fly to like an hawk. He takes a young hawk from its nest and calls him brother. He thinks that maybe this hawk can teach him how to fly. He goes on walk with the hawk but he ties a string around the hawk so he can’t fly away. Rudy realizes that the hawk isn’t really happy because he can’t really fly away and be the bird he is supposed to be. Rudy decides he needs to release the hawk, when he does the hawk calls out to him. He is happy that he set free the hawk and know he did the right thing. This illustrator didn’t use color, instead he used black and white. I know you are probably thinking that’s boring..you are so wrong! The illustrator used detailed in his drawing, you can see the emotions that the hawk felt and Rudy. When the hawk was sad you could see it. I know why this book received an Caldecott award. ( )

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