Gorgeous and literary, this is an unforgettable animal story about friendship, family, home, and belonging. For readers who love books by Kate DiCamillo and Katherine Applegate. In this exceptional debut, one young girl’s determination to save the flock she calls family creates a lasting impact on her community and in her heart. There are no controversial issues to discern.Ĭheck out the review of Coo on our Youtube channel, Bringing Up Booklovers.“An unforgettable story of friendship, love, and finding your flock.” -Erin Entrada Kelly, Newbery Medal-winning author of Hello, Universe

This book is great for anyone who can read or listen to it. Example: “Go down now, you.” “How? Can’t fly, me.” It’s a good, sweet story about a brave girl and the people and animals she loves. A nosy social worker and a reporter round out Tully’s associates–do these people spell trouble for Coo? Then, some health workers decide to start poisoning pigeons, and things get urgent. There are some funny scenes, particularly Coo’s first trip to the supermarket.

It helps that Burr lives with Tully too, his broken wing in a knitted sling. This begins another part of the story, where the woman Tully rescues Coo from nakedness and cold and gradually tames her. Coo resolves to get down off the roof and hand Burr over. Coo is heartsick.īut then she remembers that there is a human who comes to feed the flock sometimes in the alley below, and this person has taken sick birds in the past and returned them well. One day a hawk attacks, and Burr is injured. One particular bird, Burr, is the one who urged the flock to adopt her in the first place and has always taken care of her. The birds can’t find all the food she needs and also feed themselves. She’s growing, and now she’s hungry all the time. In the winter she curls up in a pile of newspapers and with a blanket of birds who keep her warm. She speaks their pigeon language, which has its own unusual way of arranging words, and never leaves the roof. The pigeons forage for their little human, feeding her doughnuts from a dumpster.

They grab her blankets and lift her up to the rooftop where they live in a dovecote, a little structure on the roof of the factory building. I guarantee you’ll never see pigeons in quite the same way again.Ī flock of pigeons in New York finds a baby abandoned on a doorstep. It’s a sweet story by the end of it, you too will want to learn pigeon-language. Coo by Kaela Noel, a middle-grade tale, tells the story of a girl raised by pigeons.