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PreSchool-Grade 3–A multicolored parrot is flown from his native Puerto Rico to his new home in a luxurious apartment in Chicago. His new owners, the Smiths, are an elderly couple who try everything to help him adjust to his new environment. Nothing about this urban home suits him, especially not the rain, the snow, and the dull gray carpet. His disastrous attempt to fly freely inside the apartment lands him in a luxurious cage, where he is overcome with even more sadness, loneliness, and feeling of entrapment. In the end, the little parrot uses a clever form of protest to outwit the Smiths in his quest to return to the beloved open space and greenery that is his native island. Pen and watercolor illustrations juxtapose the pastel colors of urban city life with the bright, cheery colors of the parrots and their natural environment in this modern-day ecological story that serves as a metaphor for freedom.



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