Only a Pigeon

Jane Kurtz; Christopher Kurtz; Illustrator-E.B. Lewis

ISBN 10: 0689800770 / ISBN 13: 9780689800771

Published by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1997

VG hardcover in VG jacket. 1997. First edition. SIGNED/Inscribed by BOTH AUTHORS on title page along with an illustration of a pigeon. Page all clean/unmarked. Illustrated throughout by E.B. Lewis. Mildest of edgewear. Clean/solid. OVERSIZE volume. Seller Inventory # A20345

Synopsis:

Ondu-ahlem thinks of his favorite bird, Chinkay, as more than just a pigeon, and when the young Ethiopian boy sets the bird free, he learns that the pigeon represents everything that is proud, beautiful, and free.

From the Author: Jane Kurtz talks about how ONLY A PIGEON came to be a book.
I grew up in Ethiopia, where my parents worked for the Presbyterian church for 23 years. Later, my only brother went back to Ethiopia to teach in a girls' school in Addis Ababa. One day, the gate guard at the school introduced him to a shoe-shine boy who worked outside the school compound. Chris took Andualem under his wing and hired him to work around the yard and do errands. In a kind of exchange, Andualem taught my brother to raise pigeons. When Chris came back to the U.S. and told me about this encounter, I was so struck by the way that kids who have nothing--not even a toy or a change of clothes--still find ways to be playful and to care for other living things. After theh book was under contract, Chris and the artist, E.B. Lewis, spent their own money to go to Addis Ababa to do the art research, making this the only one of my books about Ethiopia to have every single illustration detail exactly right. This spring, I was invited back to speak in three schools in Ethiopia and had a chance to meet Andualem, who is now in the university in Addis Ababa.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Only a Pigeon
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: E.B. Lewis
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition.