Join a father & daughter as they find their wings together & take to the skies in this funny tender tale from the master of contemporary storytelling A warm & wonderfully wacky tale told with heart & hope by the Carnegie award winning author David Almond Lizzie & Dad live in a rainy town in the north of England It's just the two of them & Auntie Doreen who pops round to check Lizzie's spellings & tell Dad he's daft
- & make them nice hot dumplings But today there's something unusual going on why is Dad building himself a pair of wings & studying the birds to see how they fly? The Great Human Bird Competition of course!