Printed in Italy Art Director: Rita Marshall Book Design: Stephanie Blumenthal Text Adapted and Edited from the French language by Kitty Benedict Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Benedict, Kitty.
This delightful, rhythmic story is full of fun and energy. Two dogs spend their day chasing Blackbird while she darts from tree to tree collecting mulberries for her babies three. Will they catch her?
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.
The story of how Le Giornate della Merla, the Days of the Blackbird, came to be celebratedd__