The Crow-Girl (Children of Crow Cove Series) »

Bodil Bredsdorff is a popular Danish children's book author. This is her first novel to be published in the United States.

A timeless novel about the kindness of strangers

Near a little cove where a brook runs out to the sea live a girl and her grandmother. All alone with no neighbors at all, the two lead a peaceful existence. They have a house, dine on sea kale and mussels and sand snails, and build fires from driftwood. But the grandmother is very old. When the time comes that the girl must bury the woman, she makes up a funeral song about the birds she is watching: Two crows never fly alone, and death is never, ever past. The next day the same crows seem to beckon her, and so the Crow-Girl begins her journey, one in which she will meet people both warm and cold, hurt and hurtful. And the Crow-Girl, before she knows it, has the makings before her of a new family . . .

This lyrical story, with its characters' moments of darkness always overcome through incredible humanity, introduces a strong new voice for American readers.

Publishers Weekly

Knowing she is about to die, a woman shares with her granddaughter the wisdom necessary to survive in a sometimes harsh world. PW said, "Readers will hope that more of [the Danish author's] sturdy fiction reaches these shores." Ages 8-12. (Sept.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.