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| Original Title: | Historia de una gaviota y del gato que le enseñó a volar |
| ISBN: | 0439401879 (ISBN13: 9780439401876) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Zorba, Einstein, Segretario, Sevenseas, Lucky (The Story of a Seagull...), The Colonel, Matthew (The Story of a Seagull...), Kengah |
| Setting: | Hamburg(Germany) Germany |
Luis Sepúlveda
Paperback | Pages: 128 pages Rating: 4.16 | 15155 Users | 1159 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly |
| Author | : | Luis Sepúlveda |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2006 by Scholastic Paperbacks (first published October 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Childrens. Classics. Fantasy. Animals. Novels. Contemporary |
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A cat. A seagull. An impossible task. A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL... is finally out in paperback! Her wings burdened by an oil slick, a seagull struggles to the nearest port to lay her final egg. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba the cat is sunning himself. She extracts three extraordinary promises from him: that he will watch over the egg, that he will not EAT the egg, and that, when it's time, he will teach the baby gull to fly. The first two promises are hard enough, but the third one is surely impossible. Isn't it?Rating Epithetical Books The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
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This is a cute Juv novel about a cat who is entrusted with the care of a seagull egg by the mother seagull who is dying after being caught in an oil spill. The cat promises to take care of the egg, not to eat the chick when it hatches and to teach it to fly.Kind of a feel-good animal story.Now I originally read Luis Sepúlveda's 1996 The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly (titled Historia de una gaviota y el gato que le enseñó a volar in its original Spanish, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, with Chris Sheban providing the accompanying illustrations) in August 2010 for a Children's Literature Group read. And yes indeed, considering that the summer of 2010 was also the time of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill tragedy and fiasco, perusing The Story of a Seagull
This is a sweet story of a cat who promises a dying seagull that he will take care of her egg, care for the baby gull and teach it to fly. He is an honorable cat and keeps his word, along with the other cats of the port. Great tale of friendship. I loved Einstein and his encyclopedias. Agreed with others who wished the criticism of humans for pollution had not been quite so direct and repeated. Could have gotten the message across in a more subtle, less distracting way. But other than that, I
One of the most touching books I've read hitherto! In the end I was full with tears because the seagull it's a part of anyone of us, a part of our innermost reality. Luis Sepulveda has an abudantly competent wit and expertise in expressing feelings and ideas!
Lovely, lovely book! <3 Emotional and deep.
At first, it was a bit sad, but the whole story is so simple and beautiful.
I found this to be a weird combination of contemporary issues (seagull encounters an oil slick, definite commentary on bad behavior from humanity, contemporary port city) and a nostalgic sort of animal story (think My Father's Dragon, A Cricket in Times' Square) -- not so much a dated feeling to the story as writing for a very specific age, where the animal tale is king. It's a good story, about 125 pages with periodic illustrations, and an entertaining cast of eccentric cats who are doing their
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