Flight of the Dodo By Brown, Peter

Title: Flight of the Dodo

Author: Brown, Peter

Illustration: Peter Brown

Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company

Comments

CIP Info Penguine and his other flightless bird friends invent a flying machine by they fly right into a thunderstorm. No penguins were pooped on in the making of this book.

Sometimes a books is just fun. Some books are just odd. Some books you can’t explain. This book is all three. The Penguin gets pooped on and this sends Penguin on a quest to becoming a flight bird. He rounds the flightless birds together and they get a balloon and take off. They enjoy this new freedom, including the ability to return the favor of the pooping. Then they get into trouble. The geese land, but the flightless birds were too excited about their new freedom they didn’t realize they were flying into a thunderstorm. The geese end up helping save the flightless birds from the storm. At the end of the book the two groups work together and learn to live together happily.

This isn’t a book with a deeper meaning. This isn’t a book that is gonna save the world. It is just fun. I enjoyed it. I wouldn’t buy it but I would check it out from the library again. The illustrations are excellent. The detail and quality are the best I have seen in this group of books. The text is long, longer than I would have liked, but I didn’t think it could have been shortened without hurting the story over all.

Illustrations done in Acrylic and pencil on board.