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Ride the wind / Nicola Davies ; illustrated by Salvatore Rubbino.

Davies, Nicola, 1958- (author.). Rubbino, Salvatore, 1970- (illustrator.).

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Still reeling from his mother's death and against his father's wishes, Javier secretly rescues and cares for an albatross who needs to find her way home, in this beautiful story of a father and a son, of grief and reconnection.

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  • ISBN: 9781536212846
  • ISBN: 1536212849
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
  • Edition: First US edition.
  • Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2021.

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Ride the Wind
Ride the Wind
by Davies, Nicola; Rubbino, Salvatore (Illustrator)
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Ride the Wind

Nicola Davies was born on May 3, 1958. She is an English zoologist and writer. She was one of the original presenters of the BBC children's wildlife programme The Really Wild Show. She has also made her name as a children's author. Her books include Home, which was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award, and Poo (2004), which was illustrated by Neal Layton, and was shortlisted for a Blue Peter Book Award in 2006; in the United States, the book is published as Poop: A Natural History of the Unmentionable. She has also written several novels for adults under the pseudonym Stevie Morgan. Her title,The Promise, was shortlisted for the Kate Greenway Medal in 2015 for best illustrator. (Bowker Author Biography)

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