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Free as a Cloud
Sweetie the myna loves to sing and fly free. But when he is taken from his jungle to live in a beautiful, spacious, but confining new home, he loses all desire to sing. Readers will empathize with all characters in this heartening tale that explores the bonds of love and the importance of freedom.
40 pages, Hardcover
Published April 1, 2017
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May 21, 2024
The myna bird tells the story in first person which I did like. It describes what it loves and sees and experiences. With the wording used it helps to stir the imagination and create scenes in your mind – if looking at visualisation activities in the classroom then on that level this book could work.
In addition, this story shows the internal conflict of the myna bird. It loves being free but when it meets the family the bird knows that they love it just as much and it doesn’t want to leave them – so it stays. As the bird stays longer with the family though it begins to start listening to the other part of its heart that wants to soar in the sky and see the mountains – things it just can’t do while trapped in a cage. While the bird becomes more unhappy the family begin to see that while they love their bird – it wants to be free. This could definitely be used in lessons as an analogy or metaphor lesson – looking at our own lives and how we each define freedom.
In addition, this story shows the internal conflict of the myna bird. It loves being free but when it meets the family the bird knows that they love it just as much and it doesn’t want to leave them – so it stays. As the bird stays longer with the family though it begins to start listening to the other part of its heart that wants to soar in the sky and see the mountains – things it just can’t do while trapped in a cage. While the bird becomes more unhappy the family begin to see that while they love their bird – it wants to be free. This could definitely be used in lessons as an analogy or metaphor lesson – looking at our own lives and how we each define freedom.
October 14, 2021
The book is lovely and the story is...okay...about a bird who is caught and then needs freedom. A little long. I kinda felt like I was supposed to get some kind of Big Meaning out of this...and missed it.
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January 6, 2018This book would be most valuable when read one-on-one with a child; so, the adult would have time to answer any questions.
Summary
Sweetie the myna loves to sing and fly free. But when he is taken from his jungle to live in a beautiful, spacious, but confining new home, he loses all desire to sing. Readers will empathize with all characters in this heartening tale that explores the bonds of love and the importance of freedom.
Subject: Mynahs -- Juvenile fiction.
Birds -- Juvenile fiction.
Singing -- Juvenile fiction.
Freedom -- Juvenile fiction.
Notes
Bai Bing has published many children's stories in China and has been awarded the Bing Xin Children's Literature Award and the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award, among others. Yu Rong worked as an illustrator, designer and art teacher before she moved to Cambridge, England. She received the Golden Apple Award at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava in 2013. She now lives in a small village on the outskirts of Cambridge.
Summary
Sweetie the myna loves to sing and fly free. But when he is taken from his jungle to live in a beautiful, spacious, but confining new home, he loses all desire to sing. Readers will empathize with all characters in this heartening tale that explores the bonds of love and the importance of freedom.
Subject: Mynahs -- Juvenile fiction.
Birds -- Juvenile fiction.
Singing -- Juvenile fiction.
Freedom -- Juvenile fiction.
Notes
Bai Bing has published many children's stories in China and has been awarded the Bing Xin Children's Literature Award and the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award, among others. Yu Rong worked as an illustrator, designer and art teacher before she moved to Cambridge, England. She received the Golden Apple Award at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava in 2013. She now lives in a small village on the outskirts of Cambridge.
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