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Synopsis
An injured magpie and a one-eyed dog live happily together in the forest until a jealous fox arrives to teach them what it means to be alone.
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About the Author
Margaret Wild lives in Sydney, New South Wales, She is the author of many acclaimed picture books. Ron Brooks lives in Huonville, Tasmania, and is an illustrator of many memorable children's books.
From Publishers Weekly
Wild (Nighty Night) departs from her playful characters of recent books for this haunting look at friendship and cruelty, geared to older readers. After Dog saves Magpie from a fire and nurses her burnt wing, the two forge a powerful bond. The one-eyed dog and the flightless bird travel together across a charred, leafless landscape, with Magpie feeling the wind in her feathers as she rides on Dog's back. "Fly, Dog, fly! I will be your missing eye, and you will be my wings." The mood changes quickly, however, when Fox enters his sleek, orange body curled around one side of a spread and sets Magpie on edge ("His smell seems to fill the cave a smell of rage and envy and loneliness"). The tension Wild invokes in juxtaposing their disparate emotions creates a disquieting feeling that Brooks (Rosie and Tortoise) mirrors in his artwork, especially in close-ups of the characters' eyes. His hand-lettered text (resembling a child's shaky penmanship) appears in oddly positioned blocks, with some flipped vertically against the page edges and gutter. The stark illustrations, in mixed media and collage, expose the characters' raw emotions with brusque hash marks in thick applications of mostly dark paint. Only when Fox cons Magpie into switching her allegiance and traveling with him do readers discover the depth of Fox's alienation. The tale ends on a tenuously hopeful note, and the images from this unsettling, provocative story will resonate long after the book has been closed. Ages 6-up.
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- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1864484659
- ISBN 13 9781864484656
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages40
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ron Brooks (illustrator). Copyright (repr). Hardback: illustrated in colour by RON BROOKS, glossy colour pictorial covers are slightly bumped and rubbed on the spine tips and corners, name on the reverse of the front flyleaf, else vg. square folio, (27pp). Dog and Magpie are friends, but when Fox comes into the bush, everything changes. Seller Inventory # 18I85
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