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The boy tracks the flight off the bird when he travels between Africa and Scotland. The story is told as a narrative in first person, where a boy and girl called Iona Callum find a hawk. I loved the important messages that were portrayed in the book: kindness, friendships and love.

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This book is full of beautiful imagery describing the hawk and nature. The paragraphs with the italics are only A fantastic book The book has a lot italics, which grips the reader into the book. How is the story told? The story is told as a narrative in first person, where a boy and girl called Iona Callum find a hawk. And I found myself delighted to indulge her every time.moreĪ fantastic book This book is full of beautiful imagery describing the hawk and nature. My daughter would beg for one more chapter after each one ended, forcing herself to stay awake and listen, her eyes fever-bright in her tired little face. There is great joy in the story, and also great loss. I may not have purchased this to read aloud to my little one had I known, so I'm truly glad of my mistake.īasically, it is the story of two young Scottish children discovering an endangered osprey has mad their backyard its home. The blurb on the back made it seem vaguely fantasy-ish,but that wasn't the case. My daughter would beg for one more chapter after each one ended, forcing herself to stay awake This was a beautiful and touching story. Basically, it is the story of two young Scottish children discovering an endangered osprey has mad their backyard its home. I may not have purchased this to read aloud to my little one had I known, so I'm truly glad of my mistake. I started crying on page 100, and barely stopped blowing my nose after that. This story’s wings spread all the way from Scotland to Africa, just like the osprey’s annual migration. I had started reading it without preconceptions, without even reading the blurb (a great way to read any book, if you can manage it!) so I’m not going to say much about the plot, but I will say that it’s about two children in a Scottish village and two rare birds, about real death and imagined death, about secrets and community, and about another child in another village. But then suddenly the gentle writing got under my skin, the story heated up, and I was gripped. And because I was brought up somewhere a bit similar, I stuck with it for a few chapters. It started quite slowly, with kids poaching fish in a Scottish burn, lambs being fed on a farm, and friends bickering over the things which seem important when you’re ten. I had started reading it without preconceptions, without even reading the blurb (a great way to read any bo I loved this book. Set against the dramatic landscapes of Scotland and West Africa, this is a timeless tale of hope and friendship-a heartwarming novel infused with the beauty of nature.more Spurred by a promise to Iona, who has fallen ill, Callum is determined to track and save Isis, and a leap of faith and the magic of e-mail connects him with a girl in Gambia who can help him make good-in more ways than one. They’re able to get the bird tagged by a preservationist, but after Isis flies to Africa for the winter, her signal becomes stagnant, then lost. She shares her secret with her classmate Callum, and the two become friends as they work to save the Osprey they’ve named Isis. They’re able to get the bird tagged by a preservationist, but a The majestic Osprey is an endangered bird that hasn’t been seen in Scotland for years, so when Iona McNair locates an Osprey nest, she’s desperate to keep the bird safe from poachers. The majestic Osprey is an endangered bird that hasn’t been seen in Scotland for years, so when Iona McNair locates an Osprey nest, she’s desperate to keep the bird safe from poachers.

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