Yeti and the Bird
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Yeti lives all alone in a wintry landscape.
Well, maybe not quite alone, but no one is brave enough to go near BIG, scary Yeti.
No one apart from Bird, who gets lost on her way south. Will Yeti finally find a special friend?
A joyful and hilarious story from award-winning children's author, Nadia Shireen. This bedtime staple is packed with easy to follow text and delightful illustrations.
"The lonely Yeti is an especially brilliant character, and one which is certain to capture children's hearts." - Booktrust
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Yeti looks ferocious, with his magnificently shaggy white fur and pinprick eyes, so everyone left him alone. The local foxes and raccoons never suspect that Yeti was lonely. The solitary sasquatch sits on a log and directs his ghostly gaze into a subalpine pool. He stops brooding when a rotund red bird, who has misread her migration map, crash-lands on his head and guffaws a silly Sqwalka-sqwalka at his angry roar. Before long, the two are playing on a makeshift seesaw Yeti calling out a happy Graaah! and singing sweet, sad songs together, which soothed the forest to sleep. Shireen (Hey, Presto) sets a foreboding scene with silhouettes of midnight blue and evergreen against permafrost hues of lichen. Yeti s coat suggests the coming winter, and the red-orange bird is the brightest presence on the pages. By the time the bird continues south, however, friendship melts the icy tension. Yeti s fellow animals, who witnessed his kindness, feel emboldened to approach him. Although Shireen tells a customary tale of an odd couple, her appealing Yeti is well worth getting to know. Ages 4 8.
