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The Magical Cockatoo
hardcover with dust jacket
Hardcover
Published January 1, 1974
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About the author
Margery Sharp
80 books184 followersMargery Sharp was born Clara Margery Melita Sharp in Salisbury. She spent part of her childhood in Malta.
Sharp wrote 26 novels, 14 children's stories, 4 plays, 2 mysteries and many short stories. She is best known for her series of children's books about a little white mouse named Miss Bianca and her companion, Bernard. Two Disney films have been made based on them, called The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under.
In 1938, she married Major Geoffrey Castle, an aeronautical engineer.
Sharp wrote 26 novels, 14 children's stories, 4 plays, 2 mysteries and many short stories. She is best known for her series of children's books about a little white mouse named Miss Bianca and her companion, Bernard. Two Disney films have been made based on them, called The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under.
In 1938, she married Major Geoffrey Castle, an aeronautical engineer.
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March 22, 2018
I don't usually provide commentary on the books I read/reread here, but I feel compelled to in this case as Margery Sharp is sadly a very underappreciated author in recent years and The Magical Cockatoo particularly obscure.
Basic premise: A bored, privileged eleven-year-old girl befriends a magical (and hilariously sassy) porcelain cockatoo that can only move under the moonlight. The cockatoo gives her a series of dares that encourages the girl to come out of her comfort zone and engage with the world around her. An utterly charming story.
Margery Sharp is better known as the author of the Miss Bianca series, upon which the Disney films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under are (loosely) based. She had an amazing gift for humor and wit, and her prose is incredible. Always one of my favorite writers!
Basic premise: A bored, privileged eleven-year-old girl befriends a magical (and hilariously sassy) porcelain cockatoo that can only move under the moonlight. The cockatoo gives her a series of dares that encourages the girl to come out of her comfort zone and engage with the world around her. An utterly charming story.
Margery Sharp is better known as the author of the Miss Bianca series, upon which the Disney films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under are (loosely) based. She had an amazing gift for humor and wit, and her prose is incredible. Always one of my favorite writers!
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