Tara's Flight - Hardcover

Eitzen, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590785630 ISBN 13: 9781590785638

Publisher: Boyds Mills Press, 2008

Synopsis

Aram, a grandson of Noah, is responsible for taking care of the birds on the ark, including his pet dove Tara, who becomes the first creature to leave after the flood.

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About the Authors

Ruth Eitzen is the author of The White Feather, illustrated by her husband, Allan Eitzen, and Ti Jacques: A Story of Haiti. A lifelong peace activist who worked through the Bally mennonite Church of Barto, Pennsylvania, she and Allan led literacy workshops in Nepal and, at home in Barto, helped raise funds for a Nepalese orphanage. She died in 2007. 

Allan Eitzen has illustrated a number of books, including Cherry Tree by Ruskin Bond, My Name Is Hussein by Hyristo Kyuchukov, and Up the Hill and Down: Poems for the Very Young compiled by William Jay Smith. He lives in Litiz, Pennsylvania.

Ruth Eitzen is the author of The White Feather, illustrated by her husband, Allan Eitzen, and Ti Jacques: A Story of Haiti. A lifelong peace activist who worked through the Bally mennonite Church of Barto, Pennsylvania, she and Allan led literacy workshops in Nepal and, at home in Barto, helped raise funds for a Nepalese orphanage. She died in 2007.

Allan Eitzen has illustrated a number of books, including Cherry Tree by Ruskin Bond, My Name Is Hussein by Hyristo Kyuchukov, and Up the Hill and Down: Poems for the Very Young compiled by William Jay Smith. He lives in Litiz, Pennsylvania.

Ruth Eitzen is the author of The White Feather, illustrated by her husband, Allan Eitzen, andTi Jacques: A Story of Haiti. A lifelong peace activist who worked through the Bally mennonite Church of

Reviews

Eitzen retells the story of Noah and the Ark from the viewpoint of Noah’s grandson, Aram, whose pet dove, Tara, serves as messenger. Noah builds the ark and loads all the creatures. Aram’s job as the rain pours down is to feed the birds, and the glowing, mixed-media illustrations show his charges in all their colorful variety next to small white Tara. After the storm, the rainbow appears, and Aram sends Tara back to their old home.When she doesn’t return, everyone knows that she has landed and it is safe to return. A message of peace seems tacked on, but children will be moved by the role of one boy and his pet caught up in the cataclysm and rescue. Decorated with cut-paper pictures flying white birds, the endpapers celebrate the dove as the elemental peace symbol then and now. Grades K-2. --Hazel Rochman

Edition details

• Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590785630
• ISBN 13: 9781590785638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Eitzen Allan
• Number of pages: 32