![]() ![]() ![]() Napoli effortlessly incorporates the twin metaphors of Albert reaching out to the world around him and baby birds learning to fly in flawless prose. He thus discovers that the world is not so forbidding, and decides it's time to test his own wings. Reluctant to destroy the nest, Albert sleeps standing up and guards the eggs while the parents are foraging. Instead of going for a walk he "listened to baseball games on the radio and cut pictures out of magazines and wrote postcards he never mailed." One day when he stretches his hand outside his window, a pair of cardinals build a nest in it. ![]() Sticking his hand through the window grillwork each day to check the weather, Albert invariably decides it's "too cold," "too damp" or "too breezy" to venture out. Napoli's ( Beast) first picture book spins a beguiling tale of a recluse forced out of his shell through unlikely circumstances. ![]()
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