Gooney Bird Summary

Gooney Bird is a series of children's novels by Lois Lowry the American author who has made a name for herself writing children's fantasy such as the Given Quartet, The Tate series, the Sam Krupnik series, and the Anastasia Krupnik series.She was born to career military officer based in Hawaii and spent her childhood moving across different states of the US such as Pennsylvania, New York, and Rhode Island. When she was eleven she lived for a brief period in Tokyo, spent her high school years in New York and went to college at Brown in Rhode Island. She was born the second child of three siblings and could never connect with her elder family oriented sister Helen or her little brother Jon that was always doing something with her father. As such …show more content…
Pifeon. Unlike her classmates, Green e is supremely confident has a magical and exciting past, an eccentric flair for style and likes to draw attention to herself. When the class teacher suggest the children tell stories, all the children want to hear Gooney Bird Greene's enchanted tales rather than Christopher Columbus. Thus begins the narratives of Gooney Bird Green that ell not only of Gooney Bird but also teaches the class the best way to tell a story and that everyone has a story in them. Gooney is a friendly yet feisty character and one of Lois Lowry's best ever characters. She comes to class with a different and eccentric outfit every day of the school week and always has a new story to tell that she swears is true no matter how outlandish or magical it seems. Lowry stretches facts and uses creative and witty wordplay to tell the interesting stories of Gooney Bird Greene. The Gooney Bird Green novels are excellent and fun novels that would make for quite a nice fireside read to remind oneself of the importance of being