num_pages: 32
description: Master storyteller David Almonds whimsical story about freedom imagination and daring all but soars off the page paired with exquisite paintings by Laura Carlin.Go on. Be happy. Off you fly!A charming tale from a beloved storyteller and award-winning illustrator urges readers of all ages to take chances and find joy. Nanty Solo is new in town and claims she can turn children into birds. Terrified parents forbid the idea but the children want to flythey want it very muchand they do. One by one they approach Nanty Solo. One by one they are transformed until the sky over town teems with rooks and goldfinches parakeets and sparrows. The adults take one look and cry Get out of that sky this very minute! But the sight of their offspringset free to soar hope and exploresoon has the grown-ups wondering what it might be like to have wings to fly and a beak to sing. The lilting dreamy tale told in David Almonds inimitable voice and playfully illustrated assures us its never too late to say yes to life.
language: English
title: The Woman Who Turned Children into Birds
publisher: Candlewick Studio