The crowstarver

By Dick King-Smith, Peter Bailey

Subjects: Human-animal communication -- Juvenile fiction, Adoption, Mentally handicapped, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Ability, England, fiction, Farm life, fiction, Foundlings -- Juvenile fiction, Farm life -- England -- Juvenile fiction, Human-animal relationships, Human-animal communication, Country life, Farm life, World War, 1939-1945, People with mental disabilities -- Juvenile fiction, World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Juvenile fiction, Human-animal relationships -- Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Human-animal relationships, fiction, Animals, People with mental disabilities, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Ability -- Juvenile fiction, Savants (Savant syndrome), Foundlings, People with mental disabilities

Description: In 1926, a childless couple takes in an abandoned baby boy who, despite being mentally handicapped, grows to display special talents, and finds a happy niche for himself in their English countryside community.