The Pond
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About this book
Two reed-warblers meet in Italy and fly together to a pond they both remember. Among its reeds they build a nest, where the female lays eggs while their neighbours prepare for young of their own. Carl Ewald gives the pond's creatures voices and opinions, turning natural history into a children's story filled with conversations about food, family and the business of staying alive.
The pond's residents are quick to judge one another. A well-travelled eel questions the warblers' manners, while a carp recalls the comfort of a carefully managed pond. Their polite speeches sit beside the practical need to catch and eat other creatures. These exchanges give the story a dry humour and make its small patch of water a place to observe both animal habits and familiar human pretensions. Readers interested in nature stories can follow the life around the nest while noticing the gap between what the creatures say and what they do.
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Book facts
- Author
- Carl Ewald
- Reading time
- About 80 minutes
- Pages
- 61
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Childrens Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online