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“In his mind he always to be a hawk, the way he flew.“

I would use this book in my classroom to teach children about region‘s landscape, peoples, and values. This books regions landscape is near the Santos Mountains. The little boy in the story resonates with hawks and wants to be able to fly like them. His values and interests about hawks is based on his regions landscape.

This is an award winning book about a boy who resonates with hawks. He knows everything about hawks and is infatuated with them. He is determined to learn how to fly leading him to adopt a hawk. He learns about the ways of the hawk in hopes that is will bring him closer to his goal of learning how to fly.

Hawk, I‘m Your Brother written by Byrd Baylor illustrated by Peter Parnall is a fiction silver Caldecott award winning book. It is about a boy named Rudy who dreams of being a hawk. He is very persistent in wanting to be a hawk even though family reminds him of all the amazing things he can do. He describes what he wants to do and why he wants to be a hawk and eventually adopts one and teaches it how to fly. #ucflae3414su19