King Crow, a picture book by Jennifer Armstrong, is a apt for the third grade students. King Crow is a fairy tale and the illustrations in this book are lush and dark. It's story of wise but vanquished King Cormac who has been blinded and placed in prison by his conqueror, King Bregant. Cormac is visited three times in prison by a crow who tells him just enough of what's going on outside to allow Cormac to seem to have magic knowledge.
The language in this picture book is haunting and there's a moral here, but not too heavily handled.
-Navtej Kohli
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