The wings of courage
By: by George Sand ; retold by Barbara Wersba ; woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi.
Contributors: Sand, George, 1804-1876.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Braziller
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Birds -- Fiction.; Fear -- Fiction.; People with disabilities -- Fiction.; France -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In coastal France, a lame eleven-year-old boy named Clopinet is sold into apprenticeship to a cruel tailor, escapes, and overcomes his fear of everything in life through his love of the birds around him.
Notes: Based on Margaret Bloom's English translation of Les ailes de courage originally published in a collection titled: Tales of a grandmother.