Perfect Nicola Davies Illustrations Cathy Fisher
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Perfect published by Graffeg May 2016 © Copyright Graffeg 2016 ISBN 9781910862469 Text © 2016 Nicola Davies. Illustrations © 2016 Cathy Fisher. Designed and produced by Graffeg www.graffeg.com Graffeg Limited, 24 Stradey Park Business Centre, Mwrwg Road, Llangennech, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire SA14 8YP Wales UK Tel 01554 824000 www.graffeg.com Graffeg are hereby identified as the authors of this work in accordance with section 77 of the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988. A CIP Catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.
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Perfect Nicola Davies Illustrated by Cathy Fisher
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I loved the little bedroom on the top floor of our pointy house. In summer, swifts nested in the roof above it and I watched their fledglings’ first flights from its window. They were perfect from the very start, soaring high to slice the sky with crescent wings. All winter I waited for them to return. And I waited for the baby who would sleep in the tiny rooftop room.
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The day she came was the same day that the swifts came back. They raced and chased each other, screaming over rooftops with the joy of being home.
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Perfect Nicola Davies
Illustrations Cathy Fisher
Written by award-winning
‘One of the best picture books
children’s author Nicola Davies,
I have ever read.’
and beautifully illustrated by
JACKIE MORRIS, AUTHOR AND
Cathy Fisher Perfect opens up
ILLUSTRATOR
the subject of disability for young readers. It tells the story of a boy who struggles to accept his new born sister, when she is not what he expected. But the swifts which swoop over his home help to show him that she is truly perfect.
‘Perfect is beautifully written. It does tend to make you cry, but it also tells a very truthful and real story.’ LAURA CARLIN, ILLUSTRATOR ‘Stories as deeply felt and as exquisitely crafted as Perfect are
Perfect is a remarkable story about
the food that nourish the soul.’
anticipation and disappointment,
NIKKI GAMBLE, CHILDREN’S
acceptance and love, and the power
LITERACY CONSULTANT
of nature in all our lives.
£8.99
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