· THE BOY, THE BIRD AND THE COFFIN MAKER by Matilda Woods, illustrated by Anuska Allepuz, is a modern fairy tale that reads like a classic. Set in the seaside, cliff town of Allora where each house is painted more colorfully than the next, Woods story, which has a sad start (a carpenter who lost his wife and children to a plague-like sickness 30 years earlier and a boy on the . · Originally a carpenter, he is forced to become a coffin maker when a plague sweeps through the town, taking with it his wife and 3 children. Fast forward to thirty years later (where the rest of the book takes place), and Alberto’s quiet coffin-making life is interrupted by the arrival of a boy and a bird into his home. Matilda Woods: Children's Author. © Matilda Woods The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker Illustrations © Anuska Allepuz
Friendship and magical realism sparkle on the page in this heartwarming, delightfully eccentric illustrated middle-grade gem from an extraordinary new literary voice. Perfect for fans of A Snicker of Magic and The www.doorway.ruo lives alone in the town of Allora. The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker. Alberto lives alone in the town of Allora where fish fly out of the sea and everyone knows everybody's business. There he makes coffins for the great and small, but being the only coffin maker in town can be lonely. That is until a little boy and a magical bird enter his life and change it forever. The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker - Ebook written by Matilda Woods. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker.
Matilda Woods (www.doorway.ru) grew up in the small town of Southern Tablelands, Australia. She graduated from Monash University with a Masters of Social Work. Matilda splits her time between writing middle grade fiction and working as a youth social worker. The Boy, the Bird, and the Coffin Maker is her debut novel. She currently lives in the same small town where she grew up, with her four chickens, three dogs, two cats and one bird. He is a coffin maker and widower, spending his quiet days creating the final resting places of Allora's people. Then one afternoon a magical bird flutters into his garden, and Alberto, lonely inside, welcomes it into his home. And when a kindhearted boy named Tito follows the bird into Alberto's kitchen, a door in the old man's heart cracks open. Matilda Woods (www.doorway.ru) grew up in the small town of Southern Tablelands, Australia. She graduated from Monash University with a Masters of Social Work. Matilda splits her time between writing middle grade fiction and working as a youth social worker. The Boy, the Bird, and the Coffin Makeris her debut novel. She currently lives in the same small town where she grew up, with her four chickens, three dogs, two cats and one bird.
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