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Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon is a 1928 children's novel by Dhan Gopal Mukerji that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature during the same year. It deals with the life of Gay Neck, a prized Indian pigeon. Mukerji wrote that "the message implicit in the book is that man and winged animals are brothers." He stated that much of the book is based on his boyhood experiences with a flock of forty pigeons and their leader, as the boy in the book is Mukerji himself. He did have to draw from the experiences of others for some parts of the book, such as those who trained messenger pigeons in the war. The book offers an insight into the life of a boy of high caste during the early nineteen hundreds and also into the training of pigeons. Several chapters are told from Gay-Neck's perspective, with the pigeon speaking in first person. Elizabeth Seeger writes in a biographical note about Mukerji that, "Gay-Neck was written in Brittany, where every afternoon he read to the children gathered about him on the beach the chapter he had written in the morning."

这是一本关于鸽子的传奇故事。由于脖颈处有着彩虹一样的颜色。这只被称为“花颈鸽”的鸽子从其出生伊始，就注定了将要和大自然的暴雨狂风及鹰隼等恶鸟进行殊死的搏斗。后来，作为一只信鸽，花颈鸽又被征召到世界大战的战场上，因为冲过枪林弹雨为盟军传递情报而身负重伤，它变得异常消沉，花颈鸽还能重上蓝天吗……本书不仅将鸽子的生活刻划得细腻迷人，更将大自然的壮丽、奥秘和残酷描写得淋漓尽致。其中，喜马拉雅山的壮丽景象和人与鸟之间深沉的爱与关怀。相信都会令读者动容。