Arturo The Parrot

Branch off of the great tree of Eudora Welty’s unique writing style into her more playful and creative mindset as she ventures to write a children's book about a urban store talking parrot. Charming shoe store parrot that causes mistakes and miscommunication throughout the story. Arturo; the main protagonist/bird in this story works alongside the City’s Shoe Store owner Mr. Friendly, and the store assistant Mr. Clark. An intelligent bird that helped around the store dragging across the floor shoe boxes that could fit customer's, getting top shelf boxes, and even getting matches for Mr. Friendly’s pipe. Arturo the Parrot, whose job was to help greet people as they came into The Friendly Shoe Store. A eye catching greetings as you walk into

As Arturo hears things by customers as the come in and out of the store, he echoes them throughout the shopping trip. Including by the son of the Thompsons, a family very close to Mr. Friendly. One day the family came in for a quick browse for back to school shopping and extra curricular activities, when Robbie, the oldest between him and his sister jane, sat down with an attitude grunting and mumbling through the store. Until he finally left and he let out a random statement that shapes the plot the this book. “SHOES ARE FOR THE BIRDS!” yelled a little boy defiantly when he finally succeeded in getting his mother and sister out of The Friendly Shoe Store. This one statement and its misinterpretation by the birds lead to a party after closing time at the Friendly Shoe Store. Birds from around the world come together to claim shoes for themselves. This sets the stage for the humorous language and actions throughout the text. Arturo is quite surprised what repeating one phrase can do and must sort out this confusion with his fellow birds. The birds demand shoes, and they are soon fitted into their new mode of

Birds from all over the city from seagulls, geese, ducks, owls, sparrows and many more; even penguins and ostrich from the city zoo. Representatives of all the species came to the meeting to receive their prize. None knowing what the actual prize was and Arturo not knowing what reason or the occasion why the other birds were there in his shop. A very intelligent bird that Arturo was used his resources around him to keep the birds calm and collected instead running a muck throughout the store. I can tell Arturo was a very intelligent bird because the large us of his vocabulary and his dictionary ready for all situations. Even praised by the highest noble representative bird family; the owls commended Arturo for his wisdom and brains. In the dark store room when the sun sinks below the horizon the chirping of “Bring us the prizes we won’t go”, the singing songbirds, the chirping cockatoos quiet down and get ready to sleep. But the “Owl rises up from his slumber and his huge yellow eyes light up the store room like to yellow globes”. Rethinking the situation again Arturo realizes the situation he’s in is a;; because of him. Over the course of the night, he learns to think for himself instead of just repeat what he hears. The next morning tending to all of his riled up guest,