Fly, Eagle, Fly! An African Tale

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The delicate issue of alcoholism is thoughtfully explored in Daly's (Not So Fast, Songololo) latest picture book. When her grandma catches the flu, Lizzie gets to commute downtown with Mama, who is a children's librarian. While management planned to play the song throughout the 1998 season, the Eagles' poor performance that year caused them to hold off reintroducing the song until the following year.

He brings it home and raises it with his chickens, and the eagle takes on chicken-like tendencies and believes itself to be a chicken.

Daly's airy, dusty-hued watercolors celebrate both the serene beauty of a South African landscape and the gentle, humming rhythm of village life. I love the way the African landscape has been described in this book, ‘river snaking like a long, thin ribbon through the golden grasslands, the forest and the veld, stretching down towards the sea’. But when his friend comes to visit one day, he tells the farmer that an eagle should be flying high in the sky, not scrabbling on the ground for grain. Eventually the villager tells the man that they must take the bird up to the mountains so it can feel where it belongs, where it was orginally found. Gregorowski, an Anglican priest, once worked in the Transkei; in an endnote, he explains the tale's religious and political significance and poignantly reveals that he retold this tale many years ago for his terminally ill daughter (""I wanted her to understand that we are all born to be eagles who are lifted up with the might of the Spirit"").

In addition, they appended the popular "E-A-G-L-E-S" chant—which had emerged in the 1980s—to the end of the song. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. They both portray the positive aspects that the book displays ranging from the illustrations all the way to the plot. The song is played following each Eagles touchdown during Eagles' home games at Lincoln Financial Field and as part of pre-game festivities before the playing of the national anthem.This brilliant book can be enjoyed for the guaranteed giggles of embarrassment at the eagle’s ridiculous situation, or to prompt discussions of life, limits and the potential of the human spirit. Although it may take some a while to catch on to the metaphor, this beautifully-illustrated story will inspire children to spread their wings and fly rather than settle for scratching with the chickens in the dirt. The song went over so well that Mansure and the band retained a permanent position as the official Philadelphia Eagles Pep Band. This is a simple folk tale about a man who finds an injured eagle as a baby and nurse's back to health.