Fly, Chick, Fly! Synopsis
In the middle of a wood there is a chick who will not fly. Not I! she cries to Mother Owl and Father Owl. She flaps, she flips, she flops and hops back into the nest. Time passes and seasons change, but still she refuses to fly. Will she ever learn to let go and soar up into the open sky?
About This Edition
ISBN: |
9781849394383 |
Publication date: |
7th March 2013 |
Author: |
Jeanne Willis |
Illustrator: |
Tony Ross |
Publisher: |
Andersen Press Ltd |
Format: |
Paperback |
Pagination: |
32 pages |
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Jeanne Willis Press Reviews
Jeanne Willis lyrical text and Tony Ross's almost ghostly pastel illustrations give this an entrancing, night -time feel Angels & Urchins
Great for reading aloud...Ross's illustrative style is the perfect match for Willis's imaginative storytelling Bookbag
The poetic simplicity of the prose, with its built-in repetitions and wordplay is well matched in painterly illustrations by Tony Ross Irish Times
A gentle poetic story accompanied by atmospheric illustrations, which held the attention of a couple of under threes. The School Librarian
About Jeanne Willis
Jeanne Willis is an award-winning children's author and scriptwriter. She wrote her first book when she was five - a slim volume about cats written in pencil and stitched together with a painfully blunt needle so that it looked like a 'real' book. After that, there was no turning back. Having been fired from her Saturday job - selling cowboy boots on the Kings Road - for chewing gum, and after a brief career as a reptile vet's assistant, she worked as a copywriter and had her first picture book published at the age of 21 (which she wrote whilst pretending to be busy creating adverts for cognac).
She has since written over 300 books and has won several awards, which are arranged in the attic where she works, along with her collection of caterpillars, pink-toed tarantula skins and live locusts. Jeanne has a keen interest in Natural History and has lost count of the number of species featured in her books, including everything from slugs to sloths. She is currently into corvids - especially Nosy Crows.
Jeanne has won the Silver Medal Smarties Prize for Tadpole's Promise, the Nasen Special Needs Award for Susan Laughs, the Sheffield Children's Book Award for Who’s in The Loo and the Red House Children's Book Award for Bottoms Up. Jeanne has also worked on scripts for TV, including Polly Pocket and The Slow Norris, and a pilot TV series for Dr Xargle.
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