The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
A cat. A seagull. An impossible task.A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL... is finally out in paperback!Her wings burdened by an oil slick, a seagull struggles to the nearest port to lay her final egg. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba...
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A cat. A seagull. An impossible task.A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL... is finally out in paperback!Her wings burdened by an oil slick, a seagull struggles to the nearest port to lay her final egg. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba the cat is sunning himself. She extracts three extraordinary promises from him: that he will watch over the egg, that he will not EAT the egg, and that, when it's time, he will teach the baby gull to fly. The first two promises are hard enough, but the third one is surely impossible. Isn't it?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780439401876 (0439401879)
Publish date: August 1st 2006
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Devo essere sincera: ho riletto questo libro dopo 17 anni e posso ancora dire che mi piace moltissimo!Come nel caso di molti altri libri non ricordavo la storia in sé con la maggior parte dei particolari, ma rileggendolo ho visto riaffiorare moltissimi ricordi: la mattina di Natale, tutti i regali c...
A 1001 CBYMRBYGU. A group of cats encounter a seagull who has run into an oil slick. The gull is gravely ill and begs the cats to promise to care for the last egg she has laid and to teach the baby gull to fly. The cats promise. It is more difficult to teach a bird to fly than the cats realized, but...
given to me by zé on some birthdayI read this book in about an hour or so, but I just loved it so! My mother had been hassling me to read for the past 5 years or so, but I kept dismissing her. I’m glad I finally took her advice!One day, a seagull caught in an oilspill lands in the balcony where a ca...