The Queen of the Birds

by Karine Polwart

Illustrated by Kate Leiper

Imprint: BC Books

32 Pages, 10.2 x 8.85 in, color throughout

Paperback
9781780276649
December 2021
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$9.95

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After a terrible storm, the Kingdom of Birds is looking for a leader. Will it be the bird with the loveliest song, or the brightest plumage? The fastest in the air, or underwater? The bird who flies highest, or those who stick together and work as a team?

All across the sky, birds are flocking together. Nightingales and robins, barn owls and blackbirds. The eagle, the flamingo, the birds of the moor. Curlews and cuckoos and herons and hoopoes. And Wee Jenny Wren.

Let the contest begin!

Karine Polwart is a multi-award-winning Scottish songwriter and musician, as well as a theatre maker, storyteller, spoken word performer and essayist. She is a five-time winner at the Radio 2 Folk Awards, and her album Wind Resistance won the Best Music and Sound Award at the CATS 2017. She was also shortlisted for Best Actor ‘Scottish Oscar’ in the Sunday Herald Culture Awards.

A beautiful new children’s book, The Queen of the Birds, which Polwart describes as a “retelling of an old folk tale that deals with the environmental catastrophe' ~Sunday Post, Children's Highlights