This is Gennady Spirin's own dear story about the day his son Ilya found a crow with a broken wing, and brought it home. The veterinarian told the boy that it would never fly again. 'Put it to sleep!' he urged the parents. But the wild crow-Martha, they called her-was full of surprises. She most certainly made their home, her home, and one day she did fly! Would there be one more surprise? When she flew away that fall, would she return again?

With Gennady Spirin's beautiful and delicate watercolour illustrations and the sweet memory of Martha's year as his guide, Martha takes flight once again.