Comments on: Countdown to the 2009 Caldecott and Newbery Medals #1: Janet Shulman and Meilo So’s Hale ‘Pale Male’ Makes Way for Hawklets http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/a-hale-%e2%80%98pale-male%e2%80%99-makes-way-for-hawklets/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Sat, 25 May 2013 15:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/a-hale-%e2%80%98pale-male%e2%80%99-makes-way-for-hawklets/#comment-6148 Sun, 11 May 2008 19:19:17 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=970#comment-6148 Thanks, Malcolm. This is a such a good book.

Raptors are like wolves and certain other wild creatures in that it seems hard for many people to write about them objectively — authors tend either to demonize or sentimentalize them. The author and the illustrator of “Pale Male” avoided those extremes admirably. And partly for that reason, this one should have a long life in libraries and elsewhere.
Jan

]]> By: knightofswords http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/a-hale-%e2%80%98pale-male%e2%80%99-makes-way-for-hawklets/#comment-6147 Sun, 11 May 2008 15:35:11 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=970#comment-6147 I remember the news stories for this received national coverage. Great news that the hawks found their way into a wonderful book.

Malcolm

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