Review: 'You can fly, you can fly, you can fly!'
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 25, 2013
Israeli author Elan Ezra is a young talent in the book field, this being his second book but most assuredly not his last! The `story bug' hit Elan when at age 21 he worked in a kindergarten reading stories to children: now he is writing them which goes along with one of his mottoes, ` This is your life. Do what you love and do it often.'In a small northern lake lived a green finned fish named Joel who dreamed of being able to fly like the birds he viewed from the surface of the lake. Even invitations to play with his friend Hosea didn't take his mind off his dream to fly like the birds, despite the warnings from his frineds that nature intends for birds to fly and for fish to swim. Hosea admires his friend's fortitude, and daily Joel quietly tries to train his fins to become wings. And sure enough, one day, like magic, his fins became wings and he was able to swim the surface of the water, leap out, and fly in the sky! BUT, Joel discovered be couldn't breathe in the air: he needed water to breathe. He returns to the water, happy to tell his friends he could fly. Knowing that he was able to catch his dream was enough.Elan Ezra illustrates his book with a combination of drawn and painted images with collage - very inventive and very effective - and since he doesn't mention an illustrator, we can only imagine that not only is Elan a superb story teller, but also a fine creative visual artist as well. Highly recommended book - for story and moral. Grady Harp, December 13