Tired hunter, must succeed.
Baby hungry mouth to feed.
Flying eagle, soaring high.
Blazing sunset, crimson sky.
The sun is setting, and the weary tawny eagle continues to soar and search over the vast Serengeti Plain. He has been hunting all day, and he will not stop until he finds food for his young chick. As the sky darkens and nighttime approaches, predators and prey emerge on the land below. Hippos lounge, cobras slither, lions prowl, zebras gallop, rhinos graze, dik-diks scurry—and still the eagle searches.
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From KIRKUS
"In this serenade to the Serengeti a tawny eagle sets out in search of food for his chick. Posed gracefully against a brilliant sunset sky in Ray's Impressionistic, semi-abstract illustrations, the eagle soars over river and plain, hippos and crocodiles, a pride of lions on the prowl and a herd of zebras. At last, after several failures and a narrow escape from a poacher's arrow, the eagle chases down a slower bird and returns to the moonlit nest. The clipped verse gives the lie to the "Peacable Kingdom" promulgated in countless children's books and cartoons--the landscape swarms with predators looking for dinner and prey seeking to avoid becoming same. Tawny eagles are one of Africa's largest birds of prey, as the author notes in the afterword; this one, and his mate and chick, make attractively fierce-looking feathered guides to the renowned wildlife preserve."
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