The Little House(Book & CD) 小房子（附CD）1943年凯迪克金奖 9780618916511
Winter's (The Librarian of Basra) fluid, accessible narrativerelays the true tale of two Red-tailed hawks that took up residenceat the top of a Manhattan apartment building. Excited bird-watchersobserve from the street as Pale Male and his mate, Lola, diligentlybuild their nest behind spikes designed to keep pigeons away. PaleMale brings mother-to-be Lola mice and birds to eat, and theresidents of the Fifth Avenue apartment below are hardly happy whenthe scraps land on their balcony. After hawk chicks hatch in thespring, they eventually learn to fly and to hunt on their own; theyand their parents become local celebrities. Alas, "the apartmentpeople," fed up with falling bones, surreptitiously arrange to havethe hawks' nest (its sticks and twigs weigh 400 pounds) removed,inciting a protest ("Ah, victory!/ The watchers convince theapartment people/ to let the hawks build a new nest"). The tone ofthe tale breezily engages readers ("Will they fall?," asks thenarrative as the fledglings attempt their first flight
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