My Dad's a Birdman

Dear David, Well, you got me. After my rapturous reading of My Name is Mina, I came to My Dad's a Birdman with open arms. I fell in love with the jacket and then, I fell in love with the book. The thing about your books, about Mina, about Skellig, and about My Dad's a Birdman, is that they are full of......more

My Dad’s A Birdman by David Almond and illustrated by Polly Dunbar Published: 2007 Age range: 7 years + Brief Synopsis: This is an imaginative story of fiction. It provides an element of descriptive wonder, set in a realistic real world setting. Jackie Crow is Lizzie’s father, who sees himself as a......more

A lovely story exploring responses to grief - great at all levels. I finished it and immediately my 6 year old daughter snapped it up - she's enjoying it so far and it's the first long book she's read on her own.......more

Okay...here I am a month later and I have to say just thinking about this one creeps me out...keep that in mind... Lizzie and her dad live alone together. Dad wants to be a bird. He eats bugs, makes wings, and doesn't do normal adult things at all. Lizzie is the adult in the family but can't cope bec......more

Written in the third person, this book tells the story of Lizzie and her Father. Although never explicitly written, it is implied that Lizzie's Mother has died and so Lizzie and her Father are left to cope alone. It seems to me to be a story in which Lizzie and her Father overcome their grief throug......more