![]() It isn't easy to have a hope and a dream, and to try to realize how to bring dreams to fruition. Throughout the story we see relationships fostered, problem solving handled, crisis averted, and other wonderful situations of life all while hoping to bring the storks back to Shora. ![]() Inevitably, they end up uniting their small community, and creating wonderful relationships with the elders of the village, as well as a disabled recluse. As events unfolded, I became completely enraptured with this story. The school children (all six of them) are all focused and determined to bring storks back to their village of Shora. I thought that since now we know why they don't come, why could we possibly have 280 more pages to go? I was worried this book might be a yawn.Īs it turns out, the stork and nests are only the framework for the real meat of the story. I began to read it and immediately they ascertained that to lure the storks they needed trees and wheels on the roofs of their buildings, neither of which they had. I thought this sounded sweet and delightful, yet only now got around to reading it. The blurb was that it was about school children in The Netherlands who wondered why storks no longer returned to their town, and how they set out to resolve this. ![]() I've been slowly trying to read through the list of all the Newbery Award books. ![]() Let me start by saying that I just read this book. ![]()
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