COO is a first novel for author Kaela Noel. Debut books are often my favorite because I believe they capture the writer's heart and passion. If this author's passion is for pigeons; and memorable characters; and little old ladies who eat vegetarian meals and save birds with broken wings; and little girls with big hearts, then this book captured it perfectly.
Coo is a little girl who was raised by pigeons on a rooftop. Her life is fine, wearing plastic bags and eating what scraps of food the pigeons find in the dumpsters for her. Then she is discovered by Tully, and a strange sort of family forms.
Coo is shown life as a human, and soon discovers it is much more comfortable and the food is delicious, but she misses her flock. And it isn't long before her flock needs her as the pigeons are in danger of being eliminated by the mayor.
Imaginative, sweet, and fun, COO is a wholesome story that will make you look differently the next time you see a pigeon. It might have a name, and a place in a flock somewhere in the city.
