The Silver Swan

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EBook

1 Oct 2010

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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. 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.

Published: 1 October 2010
ISBN: 9781409048107
Imprint: RHCP Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 32

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Activity books & early learning

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About the authors

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo has written over 120 books, many of them award-winning. His most well-known work, War Horse, was adapted into a multi-Oscar nominated film by Steven Spielberg, and a widely-acclaimed play at the National Theatre.

In 2003 Michael became the third Children's Laureate, a position he helped create with the poet Ted Hughes.

With his wife, Clare, he set up the charity Farms for City Children, and for their pioneering work they were both awarded the MBE in 1999.

Christian Birmingham

Michael Morpurgo is one of today's most popular and critically acclaimed children's writers, author of KENSUKE'S KINGDOM and THE WRECK OF THE ZANZIBAR amongst many other titles. He has won a multitude of prizes including the Children's Book Award, the Smarties Prize and the Writer's Guild Award.

Praise for The Silver Swan

Beautiful, with its heart-stopping exquisite, smoky blue illustrations.
Guardian

Pooling their considerable talents once again, Morpurgo and Birmingham craft a superb picture book about a boy, a special swan and the sometimes cruel realities of nature. Morpurgo's sharp observations trace the cucles of the natural world with a bittersweet beauty. His words take wing with Birmingham's pastels. Plying light and shadow to echo the story's shifting moods, the artist blends and blurs colours in a series of breathtaking impressionistic images. An awe-inspiring and poignant glimpse of nature's inner workings.
Publishers Weekly

A book for the whole family to treasure, the artwork shines with a strangely luminous beauty. A truly wonderful book.
Guardian

The drama, grandeur, and harsh realitites of nature are exquisitively captured in this truly beautiful and remarkable book as it follows a silver swan on her sometimes cruel, but always moving, journey through life.
Susan Harrison, Amazon.co.uk

Moments of rage and poignancy...Christian Birmingham's atmospheric pictures powerfully expose the terrible beauty of the real world'
Junior Education

A chokingly moving, unsentimental story of a boy's attachment to a swan.
Literary Review

Has a haunting, elegaic quality. Christian Birmingham has caught beautifully the mood of a deep-frozen Scottish lake.
Scottish herald

This entrancing story, brought to life with the skill of a master storyteller, is beautifully craftered...not a word too many, not a word out of place. And the breaktaking illustrations... Birmingham's dramatic images hauntingly recreate the spellbinding text. A masterpiece to be reasured by young and old alike.
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