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The conflict and his role in it are too much for the bird's tender heart, and he becomes infected with negative emotions and feelings that he must strive to overcome. He describes things as someone who's seen them: "The sky above, as usual in the winter, was cloudless and remote, a sapphire intangibility.

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Gay-Neck is sent to the European front as a carrier pigeon, and though his early adventures with Mukerji prepared him for the long flights, nothing could have prepared the noble pigeon for the horrors of war. Review by C. Hollis Crossman C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child.

Learn more about our store location and hours. Runaway Stallion. His favored pigeon, a beautiful male flyer called Gay-Neck due to his throat coloring, takes Mukerji on many adventures and flies away on a few of his own. Incredible Journey. Pagan gods are referenced, Mukerji and Gay-Neck both pray to them, and the path toward enlightenment is one reached through inner peace and care.

India in the early 20th century was very different from 21st-century America, and this novel shows us just how different.

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Over the no-man's-land of the front lines, Gay-Neck contracts an illness: fear and hatred. Did you find this review helpful? He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Winner of the Newbery Medal. It's important for Christian parents to explain these things to their kids, but this is a fascinating and accurate representation of life in India about a century ago.

There's something universally appealing for younger readers in gay the world from wholly different eyes, whether they be the eyes of Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit, E. Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon is unique among Newbery Medalists in that it tells the story of a pigeon both from the bird's point of view, and from the perspective of the young Indian boy who keeps and trains him.

Without animal stories, children's literature as a genre may never have existed. Wild Animals I Have Known. Mukerji writes with simplicity and poetry that draws readers of all ages into his very real, very foreign story. Now he's a husband and father who loves church, good food, and weird stuff.

It describes Mukerji's own adventures growing up in India, particularly his joys and trials raising pigeons. This theme is inflected with sometimes subtle, sometimes explicit Hindu and Buddhist overtones. Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon is a children's novel by Dhan Gopal Mukerji that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in Since Gay-Neck needs a protector I thought of you for several reasons.

Writing out of his own experience as a boy in India, Dhan Gopal Mukerji tells how Gay Neck's master sent his prized pigeon to serve in Word War I, and of how, because of his exceptional training and his brave heart, Gay Neck served his new masters heroically.

Read more of his reviews here. First of all being a poet, an observer of nature, and a traveller, you would be able to protect the book from being condemned. Calling Gay-Neck a novel is a little misleading. Newbery Books.

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