Finch Format: Hardback

Finalist at the 2019 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. Caged bird Finch will discover that the path to happiness is freedom, even if it comes with lurking dangers.

In this heart-pounding adventure, a young finch falls from his family’s nest, where he lived happily and was taken care of. Finch was the most beloved son in the whole world. Two humans, father and son, picked him up and put him in a cage to heal him. Although they were well-intentional people and only tried to help, Finch felt alone and abandoned  caged between those cold bars, and missed the warmth of his home. However, he soon realized that the cage that traps him is also his shield and protects him from the countless dangers existing out there in the the nature, and more than once the cage saves him from being the supper of an odd wild animal. The next day, father and son offer the bird an an unexpected chance at freedom. Will Finch take it and choose to be free, even if the world is full of dangers?

Only when we experience the real world can we know our limits.

Javier Sobrino, born in Asturias, Spain, is dedicated to teaching in a school in Cantabria.

The award winning illustrator Federico Delicado has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1970 he began his career developing audiovisual materials and illustrations for magazines and newspapers. He has published numerous books for children and was selected for The White Ravens list in 2015.