Bird

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent in Illustrations, EMIERT/ALA Ezra Jack Keats Book Award, Ezra Jack Keats Foundation Best Books, Kirkus Reviews Editor's Favorites, The Bloomsbury Review Notable Children's Book, Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Children's Books of the Year, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Story Telling World Award, Storytelling MagazineIn this gentle, award-winning picture book, an African American boy nicknamed Bird uses drawing as a creative outlet as he struggles to make sense of his grandfather's death and his brother's drug addiction.Young Mekhai, better known as Bird, loves to draw. With drawings, he can erase the things that don't turn out right. In real life, problems aren't so easily fixed. As Bird struggles to understand the death of his beloved grandfather and his older brother's drug addiction, he escapes into his art. Drawing is an outlet for Bird's emotions and imagination, and provides a path to making sense