A Pigeon's Tale

Recipient of a Blue Ink Starred Review and selected as a Blue Ink Review Best Book of 2016. Also winner of the 2016 Reader's Favorite International Bronze Medal for Children's Adventure.

In this epic SciFi/Fantasy told by a 800-year-old pigeon: Walter is a pigeon living with his parents in a rancher’s coop when a deranged wildcat attacks and sends them scrambling for their lives. Barely escaping with his life, Walter finds himself in a city where kindly street pigeons teach him about language, philosophy, and politics.

A venture south to find a human family for the winter sees him face more desperate peril as a flock of snow geese help him finish the journey. Finding solace in a dorm room with two young college students, Walter heads home with one of them to a ranch in Texas where he is adopted by the close-knit family and their quirky pets.

Walter forms a quick bond with Grandpa, the scientist grandfather, who spends every day with Walter, working on a project in a mysterious tiny shack behind the house. This secret work soon becomes the center of Walter’s life—and his fate—when he is thrust into an epic struggle for survival against cosmic forces that threaten to destroy the world.

For fans of Watership Down and The Secret of NIMH, A Pigeon’s Tale is a mind-bending sci-fi adventure tale about friendship, loyalty, and destiny.