The Day I Became a Bird

by Ingrid Chabbert
illustration by Guridi

Chabbert’s tender tale follows a young boy with a crush on Sylvia, a girl in his class, who does not see him. A giant bird costume should work! Guridi’s spare charcoal sketches, with perfect color accent only on the bird wings seen up close, zeroes in on the plight of an age-old dilemma of love and insecurity.