The Song Of Six Birds - Hardcover

DEETLEEF, RENE

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0862648521 ISBN 13: 9780862648527

Publisher: Andersen Press, 1999

Synopsis

When Lindiwe tries to play her brand new flute, she finds to her surprise that there is no music in it. So off she goes, through the village and down to the river, to find some. On her way she meets six different birds, who help her to fill the flute with the music she seeks.

About this title

About the Author

Rene Deetlefs lives in South Africa.

From Kirkus Reviews

Deetlefs (Tabu and the Dancing Elephants, 1995, etc.) pleasingly blends equal measure of cultural geography, a field guide to the birds of Africa, and the fancies of a young girl filling her flute with song. Lindiwe rises one morning in her African village to find a flute next to her bed, a gift from her mother. Eager to make it sing, she gives it a terrific blow and a dreadful noise comes out. It's clearly time for fine tuning; she roams the countryside to gather music. A crowned crane gives her a ``mahem mahem,'' and a hornbill contributes its ``tock tocki tock.'' The rainbird, the hoopoe, the paradise flycatcher, and the wood owl all tuck their calls into the flute, which subsequently powers an evening of spontaneous dance and revelry. As Lindiwe hunts her music, she encounters various members of her communityweavers, shepherd, medicine manwhich imparts to readers a vivid sense of everyday life in the village. Gilbert takes pains to illustrate that aspect of the book in closely observed landscapes and village scenes. A merry, heartening tale. (Picture book. 3-9) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Andersen Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0862648521
• ISBN 13: 9780862648527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 28