People fall in love with dogs, cats, horses, little pigs…
You’d never think of a crow.
But crows are smart. The crow family, including ravens and blue jays, is the smartest of all birds. Crows can use tools, something that scientists first thought only humans could do, then discovered that the smartest apes could do.
Jo the Crow was smart enough to make the Kadwell family and neighbours fall in love with her. She’d make happy gurgling sounds when Mr. Kadwell cuddled her. She come to have breakfast with him every day. She even found a way to join the family having a pizza in a restaurant. She’d play with the kids and steal Mrs. Kadwell’s clothes pegs from the line when she was hanging the wash.
But Jo was still a crow, and that caused problems in the neighbourhood.
This book tells about a loving relationship and then gives fascinating facts about the corvus family of birds. There are also chapters about crows in legends and about the latest research by a professor in New York state.
It’s a heart-warming book that’s easy for kids from Grade 2 up to understand, and enjoyable for adults to read too.
The full colour photographs show Jo reacting with the family, cuddling with Mr. Kadwell, walking up stairs, going for a ride in a truck…

Here’s how Jo the Crow begins:

Holey Moley, are crows ever smart.
Did you know they can talk, like parrots?
Did you know the crow family is considered the smartest of all birds, even smarter than parrots?
Here’s something else you may not know: If you compare the size of a crow’s brain to the rest of its body, it’s the same as a human brain to the size of a human body.
Now you may think that’s not much, if you think humans are not very bright. In fact, humans have to be a little silly if they think scarecrows will frighten crows. It never works. But the same brain size is true of dolphins, and you know how smart dolphins are!
It may be hard to believe that those big black crows that say Caw, Caw, Caw all the time can be so intelligent, so let’s prove it, with pictures.
We’re going to meet one, and you should know this is something special because it’s rare that a crow will become part of a human family.

Price $12.95
softcover
ISBN 1-894601-01-7