Mingo the Flamingo

Reviewed by: Carla McAllister - New Gloucester Public Library, New Gloucester, Maine, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: December 29, 2017

Review

Mingo is a young flamingo and he is all packed and ready to fly South for the winter for the first time. His flock hits a storm and Mingo finds himself in foreign territory. He lands in a barnyard that is experiencing lots of snow. He is slightly injured and totally disoriented. He apparently has a form of flamingo amnesia. His pinkness sure stands out from all the snow and all the gray, black and white shades of the animals surrounding him. He becomes attached to his new friends but something still seems wrong. When he realizes who he is, he misses his family. Will Mingo ever make his way home? Mingo is the brightest spot in the illustrations and this makes the reader understand how out of place he is. The morale seems to be "We can become comfortable among friends, but there is really no better place than home with the family.

Overall Book Score: very good