PICCIONI: Proud as a Pigeon

PICCIONI: Proud as a Pigeon

In the bell tower of San Pietro, young pigeon Rico loves to sing, until a tourist calls pigeons "rats with wings." Papa Luigi starts Operation Dignity to make pigeons look clean, graceful and fancy, and every try goes wrong. Then Nonna tells the old Piccioni stories, and a lost little girl in the market shows Rico what pigeons are truly good at. It's a warm, funny Roman tale about being proud of who you are.

By Wesley Jermaine Johnson

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