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Rose and her brothers mock the crazy old Birdman, who sits in his wheelchair surrounded by ugly gray pigeons. The birdman thinks his pigeons are beautiful, but the only things Rose thinks are beautiful are gardens full of red and yellow and blue flowers. The Birdman fills Rose s hand with seeds and tells her they are magic if she plants them outside her window they will grow a garden. Her brothers don t believe, but Rose sets the seeds out and waits. Soon, just as the Birdman promised, a garden appears before her eyes a musical flurry of blue and red and yellow birds, drawn to Rose s window by seed magic.
About the Author
When people ask Jane Buchanan where her ideas come from, she tells them about the night she was tucking her four-year-old son into bed and apologizing for having lost her patience that day. "What does patience look like, Mommy? " he asked. That was the start of her first picture book. Since then, Jane has published four novels, two picture books, and one biography. Her work has been nominated for numerous awards and has received accolades in professional review journals. Jane holds a masters degree in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. A love of children's books runs in her family. She still hears her father's voice when she reads The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. She hers her mother's voice when she reads Winnie the Pooh. She's quite sure the cadence of those books got tangled in her DNA. It is what has made her the writer she is today.
