Book Descriptions
for The Adventures of Sparrowboy by Brian Pinkney
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Brian Pinkney cleverly uses a comic-book style to bring to life a heroic African-American boy. On the surface, Henry is an ordinary newspaper carrier but in his imagination he is a superhero named Sparrowboy. As he delivers newspapers door to door around his neighborhood, Sparrowboy comes to the rescue of two small children being chased by a dog, a baby bird who's fallen into the path of a runaway red wagon, and a cat who's being terrorized by the neighborhood bully. And he still manages to get all of his papers delivered on time. Even though Pinkney has used the conventions of comic-strip art, the strong lines of his scratchboard illustrations make the pictures clear from a great distance so that the book can easily be shared with a large group. (Ages 4-9)
CCBC Choices 1997. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1997. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
From Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator Brian Pinkney comes a whimsical, high-flying picture book about a paperboy’s fantastical adventure.
A young paperboy Henry loves reading the comic strip “Falconman”—the superhero given flying abilities by a magical falcon. Then Henry runs across a sparrow with the same ability and suddenly takes off! Suddenly airborne, he delivers papers from above then realizes a bully is threatening his neighbors. This super-boy knows it’s up to him to take the neighborhood under his wing!
A young paperboy Henry loves reading the comic strip “Falconman”—the superhero given flying abilities by a magical falcon. Then Henry runs across a sparrow with the same ability and suddenly takes off! Suddenly airborne, he delivers papers from above then realizes a bully is threatening his neighbors. This super-boy knows it’s up to him to take the neighborhood under his wing!
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.