Days of the Blackbird
Tomie dePaola
Hardcover
(Putnam Juvenile, Jan. 27, 1997)
Gemma, a young girl living in the mountains of northern Italy, asks the blackbirds to sing to her ailing father, Duca Gennaro, and only one blackbird decides to remain when the weather becomes cooler, in the story of the origins of the Days of the Blackbird.
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