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Look up into the starry sky on the night of the full moon and you'll see...a bird? A plane? No...a little boy! Eight-year-old Mary Bird has discovered a secret: Her four-year-old brother Billy can fly! Floating around his room is bad enough, but when he takes off out an open window, Mary's sure disaster isn't far behind. She may be right!

With an autobiographical foreword from the author, this collection traces Dick King-Smith's journey from boy to farmer, from soldier to favourite children's author - always in the company of his irrepressible animal friends. From Dodo the film-star Daschund to a cabbage-eating shark; from a night of badger-biffing to a tortie cat with 104 kittens; from the cat who thinks he s one of the dogs to a dog who fosters orphaned kittens...wherever Dick King-Smith goes, curious animals are sure to follow.

"Isn’t he e-nor-mous!" says the giant father when his first twin son is born. "There’s a-lot-uv-’im!" notes the giant mother when the second twin boy arrives. And as Normus (a vegetarian) and Lottavim (a carnivore) grow and grow, the two are hugely happy - playing Roll the Boulder, singing badly, and doing everything together: waking up, going to sleep, even sneezing. So when they reach the age of 20 and the height of 12 feet, it's not surprising that they each think the same thought at exactly the same time: "It's about time I found a wife!"

Une irrésistible histoire d'amitié que vous n'oublierez pas de sitôt. Humour, aventures et fantaisie sont au rendez-vous ! Lorsque Harry se trouva pour la première fois nez à nez avec Madison, il fit la grimace ! Pourquoi diable son oncle d'Amérique, l'oncle George, lui avait-il légué un perroquet africain au plumage gris, âgé de quarante ans et, de surcroît, muet ? Luc Alexander, Sophie Arthuys, Arnaud Bédouet, Didier Rousset et Françoise Vallon nous proposent une lecture pétillante de cette histoire pleine d'humour !