A Swift Return

Written by Fiona Barker

Illustrated by Howard Gray

 Published by Tiny Tree

Part of my performance management at work is to keep up to date with books for EAL children, these are children whose English is a second or third language. This is a book written in English and below the English writing it has been translated into Arabic.

So when this was released I was extremely interested and I decided to enlist the help of an Arabic speaking child  from school to help.

Aria has her head in the clouds. Yusuf keeps his feet on the ground. But when they work together to save a bird who has lost her way, something magical happens. When Swift loses her way on her epic migration. Aria and Yusuf come to her rescue and are inspired to think big about looking after the sky above their city..

Child L is in year 4 and at home he speaks Arabic. I asked him to read this book and to give me his opinion. 

I took this book home with me one night and as a family we read this together. We loved reading this in Arabic as well as English. The story was a good story. It was great that this is in a dual language.

This is such a beautiful story about two young children who when they discover a young injured bird they decide to nurse it back to health.

It is lovely to see a positive story about young children, and the good they can do.

Though this is a short picture book, the message it sends will stay with you.

The illustrations are brilliantly done.

This book has so many important messages such as friendship and helping the environment.

A massive thank you to The Write Reads for my spot on the blog tour.