The Silver Swan
Michael Morpurgo author Christian Birmingham illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
Published:3rd Sep '01
Should be back in stock very soon
An exquisite picture book, telling the romantic story of a family of swans and the boy who watches over them.
A boy living by a Scottish loch sees a beautiful silver swan land on the water. When snowy winter sets in, all the birds and animals around the loch must scavenge desperately for food.
A boy living by a Scottish loch sees a beautiful silver swan land on the water. She remains at the loch, mates and there are soon five cygnets too. The boy watches them in awe and pride. When snowy winter sets in, all the birds and animals around the loch must scavenge desperately for food. The fox also has cubs to feed...
A remarkably dramatic and compassionate story about Nature, magnificently told and stunningly illustrated with sweeping pastel landscapes.
A book for the whole family to treasure, the artwork shines with a strangely luminous beauty. A truly wonderful book * Guardian *
Moments of rage and poignancy . . . Christian Birmingham's atmospheric pictures powerfully expose the terrible beauty of the real world * Junior Education *
Beautifully craftered . . . not a word too many, not a word out of place . . . Birmingham's dramatic images hauntingly recreate the spellbinding text. A masterpiece to be reasured by young and old alike * Carousel *
An awe-inspiring and poignant glimpse of nature's inner workings * Publishers Weekly *
A chokingly moving, unsentimental story of a boy's attachment to a swan * Literary Review *
ISBN: 9780552546140
Dimensions: 240mm x 290mm x 4mm
Weight: 215g
32 pages