Flying Eagle.

Flying Eagle

Sudipta Barchan-Quallen, author

Deborah Kogan Ray, illustrator

Charlesbridge

85 Main Street, Watertown, MA 02472

9781570916717, $15.95 www.charlesbridge.com

"Flying Eagle" is a majestic tale in rhyme about a tawny eagle who lives in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. Father Eagle must fly through dusk and into darkness to find live food for his chicks. He sees many possible dinners for prey, including a cobra, a hare and a dik-dik, but it is a humble little weaver bird that falls to his talons and if taken home to feed his chick and mate. The dusky, mystical paintings illustrate the flight of the tawny eagle over the Serengeti twilight with shadowed elegance. Suitable for ages 4 and up.