Eep!

by Joke Van Leeuwen

Other authorsJoke Van Leeuwen (Illustrator)
Paperback, 2012

Description

When Warren finds a bird-girl under a bush, he brings her home to his wife, Tina, and they try to raise her, but she has a habit of flying off, and she meets others in her travels, including motherless Lottie.

Publication

Gecko Press (2012), 152 pages

User reviews

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“You can do a lot with wings,” said Warren soothingly. “There are always things to be done up high. Delivering airmail letters, for instance. Keeping an eye on things.”

Eep is the sound a bird-girl makes. Specifically, a girl named Beedy, a girl with wings instead of arms that Warren, a bird
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watcher, finds under a bush one day.

“This was a bird in the shape of a little girl. Or a little girl in the shape of a bird. Or something in between.”

He takes her home, and with his wife Tina feeds her, clothes her, teaches her how to drink soup using a spoon (between her toes, not quite suitable for dining out). Beedy loves peanut butter. Or as she calls it, “peeneet beettee” (she can’t quite pronounce ‘u’).

While Beedy may look like a girl (if you hide her arms in a cape like they do) her true nature is to fly, to be outdoors and in the sky, and to feed on insects (and the occasional peanut butter sandwich) and so she takes off, and Tina and Warren go off in search of her, meeting new and interesting people along the way.

A fun quirky little book with quite darling illustrations. Writer and illustrator Joke van Leeuwen has also written other interesting-sounding children’s books.
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Awards

Inktaap (1997)
Gouden Griffel (Zilveren — 1997)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1996

Physical description

8.5 inches

ISBN

1877579076 / 9781877579073
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