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King of the Sky

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It's just my personal opinion but this book wouldn't have stood out for me to read when I was younger. Evans puts a grey pigeon with a head “whiter than a splash of milk” into his young friend’s hands — a pigeon he believes is going to be a champion, one whose “eye blazed with fire. This book is wonderfully illustrated by Laura Carlin; the faded and smudged pictures made me think of lazy days.

Nicola Davies is an award-winning author whose many books for children include A First Book of Nature, Ice Bear, Big Blue Whale, Dolphin Baby, Bat Loves the Night and the Silver Street Farm series. Peter, a young Italian boy and his family emigrate to a remote, Welsh mining town, and he finds himself feeling displaced and out of alignment with his new home.

But a friendship with an elderly neighbour who races pigeons may just be what the boy needs to find his new home. I sat beside y friend’s bed, and told him that perhaps the sunlight and the fountains and the vanilla smell of ice cream from a thousand gelaterie had made our pigeon want to stay. Biography: Nicola Davies is an award-winning author whose many books for children include A First Book of Nature, Ice Bear, Big Blue Whale, Dolphin Baby, Bat Loves the Night and the Silver Street Farm series.

Together, the boy and Mr Evans train Re del Cielo and the rest of the flock by sending them to stations up the rail line - a little further every time.Laura Carlin’s soft-focus illustrations convey flight, solitude, companionship, smog, landscape and memory with an elegiac beauty.

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