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2.5 - This was a weird one for us. I still don't know exactly what we think. I liked the middle of the book but the beginning and ending didn't work for me. What's strange is that the weirdness of a dolphin ride was too much for me. But the birds eggs wasn't. I'm more than willing to admit it makes no sense at all. It is what it is.
The book begins with a description of Grandma and quickly goes to into her journey to Greenland on the dolphins back. That was a letdown for me and Julia, while she wasn't actually disappointed, definitely wasn't loving this part either.
The family enters Grandma's room a year later, which hadn't been altered in any way, and they stumble upon a bird nest with three small eggs laying it in among Grandma's collection of birds nests. The eggs conveniently hatch just after the family finds them and the family is now the proud owners of three baby pigeons.
There's no explanation as to how this could have happened, no open window, no one entering the room prior, etc. and the two young children, a brother and sister, look up at Grandma's stuffed pigeon.
The family takes care of care of the birds and eventually the Mother calls in an expert and finds that these babies are are a thought-to-be extinct breed of passenger pigeon. The expert gets the family's permission to call in others to find out more about how this could have happened, what to do now, etc. and the family is all for for the benefit of science.
The family gets hounded by reporters and have to explain their story to person after person. Mother confides that all of the babies are males, there is no way for them to reproduce to continue the species.
Long story, a little shorter, Father opines the birds should be studied, Mother thinks the birds should be free.
Brother and sister release the baby birds but not before they taped messages onto a leg of each baby.
The last page of the book is a letter from dear, old, loopy Grandma.
"Thank you for your pigeon messages, my
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