{"id":402,"date":"2009-02-25T23:34:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T03:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/review-of-pale-male-by-janet-schulman-2\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T19:28:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T23:28:44","slug":"review-of-pale-male-by-janet-schulman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Review of Pale Male, by Janet Schulman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image400\" height=\"239\" alt=\"pale_male.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/pale_male.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pale Male<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Citizen Hawk of New York City<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Janet Schulman<\/p>\n<p>illustrated by Meilo So<\/p>\n<p>Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2008.\u00a0 36 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a beautiful picture book true story of a red-tailed hawk that flew into New York City in 1991 and made his home on a building across from Central Park.<\/p>\n<p>The building occupants weren&#8217;t too happy with a nest on their building, though the citizens of New York were thrilled.\u00a0 The hawk&#8217;s pale coloring made him distinctive and easy to spot, so bird watchers avidly watched his efforts to settle in and start a family.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely watercolors illustrate this gentle story of a wild creature learning to live alongside humans.\u00a0 It also tells how important the efforts of humans were for him to be able to keep his home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0375845585\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/pale_male.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/pale_male.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pale Male Citizen Hawk of New York City by Janet Schulman illustrated by Meilo So Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2008.\u00a0 36 pages. Here&#8217;s a beautiful picture book true story of a red-tailed hawk that flew into New York City in 1991 and made his home on a building across from Central Park. The building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-history","category-picture-book-review","category-true-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}