I’m not exactly sure how I feel about this book. The illustrations are so unusual, especially in a children’s book. The story is sad. It's a centuries old fable retold for today's generation. A parrot is captured and taken to another land. When its captor asks if it wants anything from its homeland, it requests messages of help from his parrot family. All the parrot wants is to be free. It eventually gets free, and the woman who captured him is happy because of love, but … there is just something that turns me off.