The Book Tree
  • Home
    • About and Contact
  • Stories and Poems
    • Books
    • Poetry
    • Lesson Notes
  • Book Reviews
  • Blog Bites
Book Reviews

lali's feather by farhana zia ill. by stephanie fizer coleman

3/31/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
Lali finds a feather while she's playing in the field. She thinks the feather might be lost so she sets out to find it's home. Along the way she meets la ot of different birds and asks them all the same question, 'Is this feather yours?' Each bird replies 'Na, Lali, Na!', saying the feather is either too little, or not perky or fancy or warm enough, So Lali decides to keep the feather and show the cheeky birds all the wonderful things the feather can do. All of a sudden big old wind comes along and lifts the feather high in the air and it floats away. This makes Lali very sad and, although all of the other birds offer her their fancy feathers, Lali just wants her plain, pokey little feather. When it eventually floats back to the ground, everyone wants to play with this most wonderful feather! The book ends with Lali finding another, equally intriguing object that promises even more adventures. 

This is a wonderful story about a young Indian girl with a big imagination, who sees the value and potential in the small things around her.  The vibrant illustrations are a perfect match for the text which is interspersed with Indian slang, and helps showcase the diversity inherent in the story. Lali's colourful clothes, her long brown braid and her bindi, are a beautiful depiction of a carefree young Indian girl. This is a must have book to help diverse your library collection for younger readers. 

You can find out more about Farhana Zia's books here and about Stephanie Fizer Coleman's beautiful illustrations here. 

Published in 2020 by Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 

0 Comments

    Archives

    April 2021
    March 2021
    December 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020

    Categories

    All
    Acceptance
    Adventure
    Alexis Deacon
    Aliens
    Animals
    Australian
    Author/Illustrators
    Bears
    Birds
    Bronwyn Bancroft
    Bullying
    Colours
    Communities
    Coronavirus
    Counting
    Crocodiles
    Dance
    Deb Abela
    Disability
    Diversity
    Early Australian History
    Environment
    Families
    Feathers
    Fiction
    Freya Blacwood
    Friendship
    Girls
    Glenda Millard
    Goats
    Humour
    Immigrant Stories
    Indian Stories
    Inidgenous Stories
    Introverts
    Jonathan Bentley
    LGBTQI
    Mac Barnett
    Marjorie Crosby-Fairall
    Matt Ottley
    Muslim Stories
    New Authors
    Pandemic
    Patrick Guest
    Peter Carnavas
    Picture Books
    Polar Bears
    Refugees
    Science Fiction
    Shapes
    Shawn Harris
    Skeletons
    Space
    Survival
    Tolerance
    Windows
    Women Writers
    Young Adult

    RSS Feed

Click to set custom HTML
  • Home
    • About and Contact
  • Stories and Poems
    • Books
    • Poetry
    • Lesson Notes
  • Book Reviews
  • Blog Bites