First there was one stork, then there were two. They built their nest on a wheel that the farmer had bound to the chimney. There they raised their family of two white silent small storks, and the farmer was glad because storks bring good luck to the house on which they build their nest.

In lovely rhythmic words, such as only Margaret Wise Brown could write, we follow the storks on their great flight south, to the depths of Africa where they spend the winter; and we watch them as, impelled by some secret inner knowledge, they fly north when spring comes to these lands. There they build a nest on a wheel on the chimney, and the story starts all over again.

Tibor Gergely lives in the United States, but he came from the land where storks build nests on farmers' chimneys. For many years he wanted to do a picture book about these beautiful bird and, when the author saw his pictures, she wanted to write the text. So we have a memorable book that has the sweep and strength of the brave storks' flight.

From the dust jacket