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How to Make a Bird
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How to Make a Bird

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Extraordinary imagery and rich language spark the reader’s imagination as they enter the creative world of a young girl in How to Make a Bird. Congratulations Meg McKinlay, How to Make a Bird is the 2021 CBCA Picture Book of the Year.From award-winning author Meg McKinlay and celebrated artist Matt Ottley comes a moving and visually stunning picture book that celebrates the transformative power of the creative process from inception through recognition to celebration and releasing into the world. We shadow the protagonist as she contemplates the blue print of an idea, collects the things that inspire from the natural world to shape a bird. And breathes life into it before letting it fly free. It shows how small things, combined with a little imagination and a steady heart, can transform into works of magic.As with all great creations, How to Make a Bird is almost too complex to comprehend yet Ottley’s visually arresting illustrations work in perfect unison with a narrative that reads like a verse novel. Words grace images that are clean and uncluttered yet perfectly precise. I do not know anyone who does penumbral clouds as stunningly as Matt Ottley; I could stare at them all day, lost in their infinite beauty. This book is the creators’ bird. It is simple magic. It is unexpected pleasure. It enchants and entrances as it guides us through the intriguing anatomy of birds and imagination. It is an ode to the natural world, of making and making do then moving on. It’s a transformative vision of life that every child and adult must experience.Shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards 2021.Hardback. 32 pages. 253 x 278mm.

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