Our daughter saw a poster at the library that featured the cover art from Calvin Can’t Fly ~ The Story of a Bookworm Birdie and shared that she wanted to find that book.  Unfortunately it was checked out at the time  so we put in a requested and waited…When it finally arrived it was well worth the wait.  This darling story tells the tale of Calvin who enjoys reading and loves to learn.  He loves to read so much that he goes to the library rather than participating  in “flying lessons” with his sibling and cousins which presents a problem when it is time for all the starlings to fly south for the winter.  With the help of his family pulling him along, Calvin joins them southward.  Unfortunately they head directly into a hurricane.  Calvin recognizes what the hurricane is thanks to reading meteorology books and leads them  to safety.

I love this book.  The artwork is eye-appealing,  the lessons taught are outstanding, and a wide variety of non-standard vocabulary words are used.