Falling Angels - Hardcover

Thompson, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091768179 ISBN 13: 9780091768171

Publisher: Hutchinson, 2001

Synopsis

Dreams, imagination, growing up and a very special relationship between a young girl and her grandmother are at the heart of this beautifully illustrated book from a master storyteller.

‘The first time Sally flew was before she could even crawl. As her parents slept, she floated above them, too young to speak, too young to think in words.’

Sally is just a baby when she first begins to soar above her house and over the garden. Soon she sees her brother and other children floating over the rooftops. But her mother is skeptical. “You and your ridiculous stories.

It's time you came down to earth.” Only her grandmother believes her and every night, Sally returns with a special present for the old lady – a butterfly, an opal, an orchid. She recalls her own travels as a little girl and explains that everyone has the power to fly, “only they've forgotten how. It's called growing up.”

One day, Sally and her grandmother fly together to a land of warm sunshine and lagoons, where grandmother dreams of her favourite place, then draws her last breath and stays forever. But Sally never forgets her dreams and when she, at last, has children of her own, she flies with them – to the Aztec ruins, to fields of snow and finally to the golden beach by the clear lagoon.

About this title

About the Author

Originally from the UK, Colin Thompson now lives in Sydney, Australia.

From the Inside Flap

ination, growing up and a very special relationship between a young girl and her grandmother are at the heart of this beautifully illustrated book from a master storyteller.

The first time Sally flew was before she could even crawl. As her parents slept, she floated above them, too young to speak, too young to think in words.

Sally is just a baby when she first begins to soar above her house and over the garden. Soon she sees her brother and other children floating over the rooftops. But her mother is skeptical. You and your ridiculous stories.

It's time you came down to earth. Only her grandmother believes her and every night, Sally returns with a special present for the old lady a butterfly, an opal, an orchid. She recalls her own travels as a little girl and explains that everyone has the power to fly, only they've forgotten how. It's called growing up.

One day, Sally and her grandmoth

Reviews

Colin Thompson's enigmatic artwork once again takes center stage in Falling Angels, the story of a girl who can fly. Sally thinks she's the only one who possesses this power but soon finds out her grandmother once flew, too. (Hutchinson [Trafalgar Sq., dist.], $16.95 32p ages 5-8 ISBN 0-09-176817-9; Oct.) In The Haunted States of America: Haunted Houses and Spooky Places in All 50 States... and Canada, Too! Joan Holub tells of ghosts said to guard buried treasure in Arizona's Superstition Mountains; in California, the Winchester Mystery House, built by the wife of the heir to the Winchester rifle fortune, was designed with maze-like hallways, secret rooms, as well as stairs and doors "leading to nowhere" in an effort to elude the ghosts she thought were haunting her. ( Sept.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091768179
• ISBN 13: 9780091768171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32