Author: KING-SMITH, DICK
Title: The Cuckoo Child
Description: London, Viking. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0670832952). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Parkins, David. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. Under your pillow is not the best place to hatch an egg but Jack does have a way with birds and, as he grows so do his pets, from budgies to bantams to ducks to an ostrich? Having had the luck to get an ostrich egg he is determined to hatch it, enlisting the help of a pair of geese as foster parents. What will they make of a giant son who sinks when he should swim, is in danger of trampling his brothers and sisters and runs faster than any bird on earth? C3D. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Juvenilia, Cuckoos, Ostrich Egg, Geese 0670832952 Parkins, David


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