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Publisher: Candlewick

Author: David Almond

ISBN: 9780763659127

Format: Hardcover

Children 8-10 yrs

Mouse Bird Snake Wolf by
David Almond

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$ 400.00 mxn

Mouse Bird Snake Wolf by

David Almond

Summary

The imagination of three children takes on unexpected life in a creation tale from the dream team of David Almond and Dave McKean.

The gods have created a world that is safe and calm and rather wonderful. They have built mountains, forests, and seas and filled the world with animals, people, and unnamed beasts. Now their days are fat with long naps in the clouds, mutual admiration, and tea and cake. But their world has gaps in it filled with emptiness, gaps that intrigue Harry, Sue, and little Ben until they begin to see what might fill them. One by one the children conjure, from twigs and leaves and stones, a mousy thing, a chirpy thing, and a twisty legless thing. But as the children’s ideas grow bolder, the power of their visions proves greater and more dangerous than they, or the gods, could ever have imagined. Is it possible to unmake what’s been made?

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

John Steinbeck

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“I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”

Nan Shepard

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“What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”

Elena Ferrante

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“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

George Orwell

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“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”

Kate Grenville

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