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In this elegant tale, Tomie dePaola imagines how the
Days of the Blackbird in northern Italy came to be. Gemma and her father, the
Duke of Gennaro, live in a house with a courtyard that fills with birds of all
colors through the spring and summer. When the Duke falls ill at the end of
summer, Gemma begs the birds to stay to raise his spirits with their song.
However, as snow and fierce winds begin to swirl down on the village, the birds
must fly south to stay warm, and eventually only one loyal bird remains. At the
request of a kind duke''s loving daughter, La Colomba, a pure white bird, braves
the bitter winter of the northern Italian mountains to sing for the gravely ill
man.
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