Friday, August 23, 2024

Wahl. Rosa's Parrot

Rosa's Parrot is a children's book by Jan Wahl, with art by Kim Howard, published in 1999. It is available at the Internet Archive.

Here is a YouTube read-along:

Rosa is hard of hearing and her parrot helpfully repeats what people say VERY LOUDLY for her. Rosa accumulates some companions on her way to the market (told as a cumulative chain), including a man with his dogs. At the market, the parrot (secretly, under his wing) meows like a cat, setting the dogs off in pursuit and causing havoc at the market. Rosa tells the parrot he is a bad bird and makes him sit in the corner, and then they make up in the end.

It's not much of a story, but the art is delightful. It would be fun to imagine more tricks that the parrot could play on all the people who go to the market with Rosa, not just the man with dogs.


You can read more about Jan Wahl's life and prolific career at Wikipedia; you can read his obituary (he died in 2019) at the New York Times



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