Finalist for NZ Children's Picture Book of the Year 2000
Listed as a Notable Book of the Year by the NZ Children's Book Foundation

"On New Year's Day, George and Harry went to town to return the video they had hired. The video shop was closed. On the door was a notice, WILL REOPEN JANUARY 13 and under the notice was a flap like the mouth of a letterbox.

Harry, who had his nose pressed hard against the glass window, said, 'Hey George! Look! A sparrow! It's flying around the shop.' "

And so their quest to release the sparrow begins.