Sailing Boat In The Sky - Softcover

Blake, Quentin

3.84

61 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009943959X ISBN 13: 9780099439592

Publisher: Red Fox, 2003

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While walking along the beach one day, Isobel and Nicholas discover a strange looking wreck. As they begin to put it together they find it is a peculiar sort of sailing boat. They clamber in, and so begins their great adventure. Aided by a wounded stork, they sail through the sky encountering scenes of despair and devastation, and set about righting some of the wrongs in the world. At each place they stop to help, and soon the boat is full with all their new friends - a bullied girl, a weak child worker, a boy, rescued from a polluted city, a mother and baby saved from a war zone. But this all takes its toll on the boat, and they have to find a safe place to land, where they can all work together to build a bigger and better sailing boat and continue on their humanitarian mission.

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"A beautiful and thoughtful story of tolerance and hope told in words and pictures." -- "Guardian"

"His signature ink and watercolour depict sorrow, while his storytelling skill spells hope." -- "Financial Times"

Book Description:

This unique picture book about the important themes of poverty, child slavery, pollution, racism and war created by Quentin Blake and 1,800 children from all over Europe.

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