A nice detail.

I know it's a little detail, something without much importance. However, I did like the sentence that appears right before the first page of the story with the following sentence:

A young boy puts a feather into his mouth...

The last sentence of the book is:

...a young boy takes a feather out of his mouth.

It provides for some consistency and sense of closure. As I said, I know it's not important at all. It's a little detail but... I liked it.