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MediaDB / «My Dad is a Bird” by David Amond: download fb2, read online
About the book: 2017 / A man with wings! David Almond's favorite theme, this time in a comic version: Lizzie's little girl's dad decided that he was a bird-man. And flyers from all over the world have just come to the city for the competition! And Lizzie, who looks after her father like an irresponsible child, cannot stand it: she also wants to make wings and fly with her dad. What is there! Even the school principal, Mr. Iris, will fly! Only Aunt Doreen will retain the remnants of sanity, but... it seems that she also dreams of flying. David Almond is known all over the world: he is a laureate of the International Andersen Prize (Nobel Prize for children's literature) and prestigious British literary awards, and most importantly, he is the author of stories and plays for children and teenagers, written in the unique genre of magical realism. Everyone knows his books “Skellig” and “My Name is Mina” and the fascinating story “The Boy Who Swim with the Piranhas.” The author himself says about his new story “My Dad Is Birds”: “...Fast, lively action, with a lot of humor and a lot of hope... what children need».