This difficult question has fascinated people for thousands of years

when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn

haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh

and Dirk are about to face a challenge unlike any they’ve faced before

Crane Boy Rebecca Stefoff This difficult question has fascinatedEvery year, Kinga and his classmates wait for the black necked cranes to return to the kingdom of Bhutan. The birds fly south over the highest mountains in the word to winter in the valley where Kinga lives, deep in the Himalayas. The cranes have been visiting the valley since ancient times, but every year, fewer cranes return. Kinga is concerned. "What can he do?," he wonders. He and his classmates approach the monks for permission to create and