What's Everybuggy Reading: Ophelia
Crow Call
by Lois Lowry
Scholastic Press, 2009
Fall has arrived! With the crisp autumn winds and the leaves bursting into color, who can resist the charms of the season? Lately I’ve been reading a bundle of autumn books to keep me firmly in a fall mood. My favorite is Crow Call, a touching tale of a father and his daughter, Liz, who are reunited after World War II. One fall morning Liz joins her father on a hunt, and she gets to use her father’s “crow call” to bring the crows to them. (Don’t worry—they don’t shoot!) There is one particularly magical moment where the two are simply surrounded by crows.
The illustrations in this book are fantastic. You can practically feel the wind and hear the crows as you read! My favorite is the picture of little Liz buying a man’s plaid hunting shirt, which her father says is “a very practical thing to do” because she “will never ever outgrow” it. As a special treat, on the very last page, you’ll find an adorable photograph of the author as a child wearing her men’s plaid hunting shirt! It goes right down past her knees! (Do you think they make plaid shirts for praying mantises?)
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