Time to Fly
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- £9.49
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- £9.49
Publisher Description
In the spirit of Mark Teague’s Fly, Baby Bird learns to overcome his fear of leaving the nest in this sweet and encouraging picture book.
Mama Bird says it’s time to fly! Baby Bird thinks not. Nest is best…or is it? With the help of his mama, Baby Bird discovers the amazing things that can happen if he finds the courage to spread his wings and fly.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"You've outgrown this woven home./ It's time to fly!" urges a mother bird, bright blue with an orange breast, who perches a few feet away from the tree where her last offspring stubbornly refuses to budge. The little bird, however, not a fan of change, insists that "Nest is best." Readers can sympathize, given the vast sky above and the vertiginous bird's eye view of the ground below. But persistence eventually pays off when the mother tempts the would-be fledgling with a snack, rewards its short round trip with a snuggle (shown in a sweet extreme close-up), and then delivers some hard truths: a flightless baby bird is a sitting duck for a hawk, shown circling in the background above. And so the bird steels itself, then takes off to join its siblings: "Hello wings!/ Hello air! / I'm on my way...// to everywhere!" A fresh breeze blows through this familiar story of nurture and independence, thanks to Lyon's (Trains Run!) emphatic metered verse, which offers structure to the avian ordeal, and Fizer Coleman's (Birds of a Feather) digital art, whose varied cinematic framing evokes layered textures of printmaking and watercolor. Ages 4–8. Author's agent: Brenda Bowen, Book Group. Illustrator's agent: Anne Moore Armstrong, Bright Agency.
