Imprint: Corgi Childrens
Published: 03/09/2001
ISBN: 9780552546140
Length: 32 Pages
Dimensions: 290mm x 5mm x 240mm
Weight: 218g
RRP: £7.99
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.
Imprint: Corgi Childrens
Published: 03/09/2001
ISBN: 9780552546140
Length: 32 Pages
Dimensions: 290mm x 5mm x 240mm
Weight: 218g
RRP: £7.99
A book for the whole family to treasure, the artwork shines with a strangely luminous beauty. A truly wonderful book
Moments of rage and poignancy . . . Christian Birmingham's atmospheric pictures powerfully expose the terrible beauty of the real world
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
An awe-inspiring and poignant glimpse of nature's inner workings
A chokingly moving, unsentimental story of a boy's attachment to a swan