The Story of A Seagull and The Cat Who Taught Her to Fly - Sepúlveda Luis
We've learnt to appreciate and respect and love someone who's different from us. It is very easy to accept and love those who are like us, but to love someone different is very hard, and you helped us to do that.
Zorba, a fat black cat, will be alone this summer while his boy’s family goes on holiday – convenient given the adventure that’s about to befall him. Kengah, an exhausted and oil-drenched seagull, lands on his balcony and lays a final, precious egg. She makes Zorba promise he will not eat the egg but will look after her baby and teach it to fly. He enlists his motley group of friends, fellow cats at the port of Hamburg, to help him figure out how to raise a chick. Sepúlveda, a Chilean author, was jailed under the Pinochet regime and was later on the crew of a Greenpeace ship. The environmental message in this novella is noticeable but not overpowering. The translation gives each cat a distinctive voice, and the line drawings are a nice bonus of this new edition. Geared towards nine to eleven-year-old readers, this might also be read aloud with younger children.
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