Gay Neck The Story of a Pigeon
by Mukerji, Dhan Gopal
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Albany, California, United States
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Synopsis
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon is a 1928 children's novel by Dhan Gopal Mukerji that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1928. It deals with the life of Gay Neck, a prized Indian pigeon. Mukerji wrote that "the message implicit in the book is that man and winged animals are brothers. " He stated that much of the book is based on his boyhood experiences with a flock of forty pigeons and their leader, as the boy in the book is Mukerji himself.
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- Bookseller
- Eve's Book Garden (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 041140
- Title
- Gay Neck The Story of a Pigeon
- Author
- Mukerji, Dhan Gopal
- Illustrator
- Artzybashell, Boris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton
- Date Published
- 1927
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