The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said: A Young Readers, Fantasy, Fiction and Literature Classic By Padraic Colum! AAA+++

Like his other children's novel, The King of Ireland's Son, Colum's The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said embeds several folktales into a single narrative. Unlike that other book, the tales here are not woven so cleverly and intricately together to form a single cohesive story- nevertheless, The Boy Who Knew... is permeated with the same wit and wonder. The prose is sparse but graceful and suggestive; the dialogue, simple yet pregnant with wry humor.