Maggie began spending more time outside of the barracks on the arm of shig, or sitting next to his mother. The bird learned to mimic just about anything that she heard. She especially liked listening to tea natures whistling an one of the things they did was whistle short, simple tunes. But her favorite tune was the wolf call.
When Shigeru Yabu was 9 years old, he and his family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain Internment Camp, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese American families. One day, Shigeru discovered a baby magpie that had fallen out of its nest. He named her Maggie. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we looked at each other, eye to eye.”
Shigeru Yabu’s book is Hello Maggie!
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