This book is beautiful. The message of the book is powerful. It tells the true story of China's sparrow war and the deadly aftermath. In 1958, farmers in China declared war on sparrows, blaming them for eating too much of their wheat crops, but this war resulted in many chinese dying from famine because there were no sparrows to eat the insects. It is so tragic how one man's foolishness, the leader in china at the time, could result in so many lives being lost.
In this story, a little girl, the main character, ends up a hero because of her compassion. In the book, she saves seven birds lives. Although she doesn't think it was very successful at the time, these seven birds end up as China's salvation. Seven is a significant number. In scripture it is known as the number of perfect order. Through the wisdom and compassion of one little girl, perfect order is restored (signified by the seven birds) to the village-the natural order that God established when He created the earth.
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