Lonely Bird (Hardcover)

Ruth Whiting

ISBN 10: 1536226181 / ISBN 13: 9781536226188

Published by Candlewick Press,U.S., Massachusetts, 2023

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Hardcover. A tiny paper bird shares a home with humans in this wondrously illustrated debut, introducing a sensitive, creative soul who ventures into the belly of the beast to rescue a new friend. Shes just a tiny slip of paper, a doodle cut in the shape of a bird. She isnt sure who made her or how she came to be, or if the family she lives with even knows she is there. She turns found objects into things of beautysometimes leaving them for the child of the house to discoverand invents riveting tales to tell to the wall outlet. And now, in her grandest adventure yet, the dauntless artist makes something thoroughly unexpected: a friend. With spare prose and luminous paintings, Ruth Whiting introduces a delicate 2D character navigating an oversize worlda reality just on the edges of our own. A tiny paper bird shares a home with humans in this wondrously illustrated debut, introducing a sensitive, creative soul who ventures into the belly of the beast to rescue a new friend. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lonely Bird (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Candlewick Press,U.S., Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1536226181
• ISBN 13: 9781536226188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Whiting, Ruth
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A tiny paper bird shares a home with humans in this wondrously illustrated debut, introducing a sensitive, creative soul who ventures into the belly of the beast to rescue a new friend.

She’s just a tiny slip of paper, a doodle cut in the shape of a bird. She isn’t sure who made her or how she came to be, or if the family she lives with even knows she is there. She turns found objects into things of beauty—sometimes leaving them for the child of the house to discover—and invents riveting tales to tell to the wall outlet. And now, in her grandest adventure yet, the dauntless artist makes something thoroughly unexpected: a friend. With spare prose and luminous paintings, Ruth Whiting introduces a delicate 2D character navigating an oversize world—a reality just on the edges of our own.

About the Author

Ruth Whiting is an artist and maker with a diverse body of work. For Lonely Bird, she created elaborate stage sets that she photographed and rendered as oil paintings. Born in England to Australian parents, her travels and history are reflected in her art: the house Lonely Bird lives in is an echo of her childhood lived across three continents, and the striped patch used to mend the character Wigglet is made from a French electrical tape the illustrator became attached to when she lived in Paris as a child. Ruth Whiting and her husband, the artist and kite designer Tim Elverston, now live in Florida with their son.