The story of a seagull and the cat who taught her to fly / by Luis Sepúlveda ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden ; illustrated by Chris Sheban.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2003.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 126 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0439401860
- 0439401879 (pbk.)
- 9780439401869
- 9780439401876 (pbk.)
- Historia de una gaviota y del gato que le enseñó a volar. English
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Sepulved Lui | Available | 33111007022060 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Published in 20 countries, sold over 1 million copies, and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL AND THE CAT WHO TAUGHT HER TO FLY has finally come to the U.S.!
It's migration time and as a mother gull dives into the water to catch a herring she's caught in an oil slick! Thinking of the egg she is about to lay she manages to extract herself and fly to the nearest port.
Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba the cat is sunning himself. Zorba wants to get help, but the gull knows it's too late and she extracts three promises from him: 1) That he won't eat the egg, 2) that he'll take care of the chick until it hatches, and 3) that he'll teach it to fly.
Well the first two are hard enough, but the third one is surely impossible. Isn't it?
Summary: A seagull, dying from the effects of an oil spill, entrusts her egg to Zorba the cat, who promises to care for it until her chick hatches, then teach the chick to fly.
A seagull, dying from the effects of an oil spill, entrusts her egg to Zorba the cat, who promises to care for it until her chick hatches, then teach the chick to fly.