A Surprisingly Fluffy Bird
Language: English
Published by An Sithean Press, 2015
- Softcover
- Used
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- Title
- A Surprisingly Fluffy Bird
- Author
- Chapman, Jenny
- Publisher
- An Sithean Press
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1910637017
- ISBN 13
- 9781910637012
- Illustrator
- Chapman, Jenny
- Item weight
- 0.39 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: Tales from the Adventures of Algy
This is the first book in the Tales from the Adventures of Algy series of engaging tales set in the beautiful rugged scenery of the wild west coast of the Scottish Highlands, with a cast of memorable wildlife characters drawn from Nature, each with its own distinctive voice... and that unique fluffy bird, Algy.
Algy is completely and utterly lost - at sea! When his tiny raft emerges from the swirling mist, Algy finally sees the rocky coast and hills of a foreign land... but can he manage to reach the shore safely, and then survive in this strange new place?
Includes coloured illustrations at the start of every chapter and a glossary of Scottish and Gaelic words.
Intended for children aged approximately 7 to 10 to read alone, or for reading aloud to younger children, but also loved by readers of all ages who are still young at heart.
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Review
“Can’t recommend it highly enough – it deserves to become a modern day classic.”
“A charming beautifully written book that leaves you with a ‘feel good’ feeling.”
“...really captures the joys and essence of the scenery and wildlife in the West Highlands.”
"The tale of a bird washed into the sea and carried on driftwood to a strange and wild shore. The soppy title is deceptive as Fluffy Bird is actually about pathfinding, fear, and winning acceptance – the things that really interest children. And adults too. From a bank of seaweed, blocking escape as the tide approaches, to the urgency of relearning to fly as a predator pounces, objects, animals, landscapes and events are a series of dimly grasped but deadly threats, until the escaped hero finally recounts them in ballad form to his new friends, like the shipwrecked wanderer Odysseus to the hospitable Phaeacians. For Phaeacia read the west coast of Scotland. Jenny Chapman writes in verse at least as well as in prose, which is well though not simply. A pleasure for imaginative kids who like stories. Mum and dad will enjoy it too."
From an Amazon TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE VOICE: "It’s not your conventional children’s story, to put it mildly. From page one, Algy is a lost, stranded, endangered bird, scared and confused. He meets a variety of creatures, mostly birds, some friendly, some not so friendly, and all well-observed renditions of common birds of the Western Isles- well, apart from the fact that real birds can’t speak English, but otherwise you know what I mean...
There’s a strong thread of traditional oral storytelling running through the core of the story. At one point Algy effectively pays his way with a song, his own ballad of how he came to be stranded in a strange place (the prose turns into poetry for several pages at this stage). You can easily picture a good folk singer giving the story some real welly at this point.
In keeping with the oral storytelling, sound plays a big part in the story- and in the reading of the story. The sound of the sea is ever-present, and is good fun to read out loud. The cormorants and the seagulls all have dialogue clearly written with their proper bird calls in mind, so if you are reading it out loud, it can become a real impressions-of-birds performance piece."
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