The Day of the Pelican
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| Author | Katherine Paterson |
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's/Teen Fiction |
| Publisher | Clarion Books |
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19 October 2009 |
| Pages | 160 |
| Awards | 2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal |
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The Day of the Pelican is a children's novel by Katherine Paterson, first published by Clarion Books on October 19, 2009.
Critical reception for The Day of the Pelican has been largely positive. The Christian Science Monitor was more positive and wrote that it "does double duty as both a gripping read and a lesson in compassion and global conflict. In her quiet way, Meli is a hero, and teen readers safe from conflict themselves may marvel at her humanity."
The University of Arizona's Worlds of Words was critical of the book and of Paterson's choice to focus on an Albanian family, as they felt that she "justifies the oppression that they undergo and she does not mention what happened to Serbian and Bosnian Muslims during that horrific event in the heart of Europe. Further, by not focusing on presenting the physical torture and rape that the Muslims underwent due to ‘ethnic cleansing’ Patterson does not do justice to the actual historical events and the audience comes away with a skewed version of the actual events."
Its a really good book
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