Awards

• Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Children's Illustrated) 2005
• Winner of Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) (Recommended) 2004

Overview

For centuries birds and their magnificent ability to fly have inspired tales of mischief, mystery, and enchantment.In a collection that is as beautiful as it is timeless, award-winning author Howard Norman and Caldecott medalists Leo and Diane Dillon offer five bird stories from around the world--including one about an elusive bird that sings like a warthog and another about a much loved quail dying of thirst. This glorious collaboration is the perfect gift for any family library, a book that children and parents alike will treasure.

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Praise for The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese This collection is not only the handsomest gathering of Inuit folktales ever, but one that will bring readers as close to a living oral tradition as printed material can . . . A pleasure to see, to hold, and to read. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From the creators of The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese (1997), a less ambitious outing: five tales from a workshop run by Norman (15 years ago), illustrated with art that tries to look like leaded stained glass. Except for The Bird Who Sang Like a Warthog, which resembles Rodanas's The Blind Hunter (2003), the stories are new. A Disobedient Daughter forces Goolayyahlee the pelican to teach Aboriginal people how to make fishing nets; a Beautiful Quail survives a drought in Sri Lanka thanks to the kindness of others; and the transformation of residents of a remote Chinese village into swans when they die becomes The Swan-Scholar's Great Secret. All told in the same formal, restrained tone, the tales receive individuality from the names of the characters, and also from evocative motifs in the stylized art-though the Dillons' use of a diffuse line makes the colors look watery. Norman identifies the original tellers in a long afterword that's more about the workshop than the stories. Though handsomely packaged, this pricey gathering won't draw or keep the interest of child readers or tellers. (Folktales. 8-11) (Kirkus Reviews)

Praise for The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese This collection is not only the handsomest gathering of Inuit folktales ever, but one that will bring readers as close to a living oral tradition as printed material can . . . A pleasure to see, to hold, and to read. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Praise for The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese <br> This collection is not only the handsomest gathering of Inuit folktales ever, but one that will bring readers as close to a living oral tradition as printed material can . . . A pleasure to see, to hold, and to read. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)<br>

Praise for The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese : <br> This collection is not only the handsomest gathering of Inuit folktales ever, but one that will bring readers as close to a living oral tradition as printed material can . . . A pleasure to see, to hold, and to read. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)<br>

Author Information

HOWARD NORMAN is a three-time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction. His novels The Northern Lights and The Bird Artist were both nominated for National Book Awards. He is also author of the novels The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, What Is Left the Daughter, Next Life Might Be Kinder, and My Darling Detective. He divides his time between East Calais, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. LEO and DIANE DILLON together illustrated more than twenty-five acclaimed and award-winning books for children, including the Caldecott Medal winner Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema, a retelling of the opera Aida by Leontyne Price, and their own Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose.

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