After a terrible storm, the Kingdom of Birds is looking for a leader. Will it be the bird with the loveliest song, or the brightest plumage? The fastest in the air, or underwater? The bird who flies highest, or those who stick together and work as a team?

All across the sky, birds are flocking together. Nightingales and robins, barn owls and blackbirds. The eagle, the flamingo, the birds of the moor. Curlews and cuckoos and herons and hoopoes. And Wee Jenny Wren.

Let the contest begin!

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'A beautiful new children’s book, The Queen of the Birds, which Polwart describes as a “retelling of an old folk tale that deals with the environmental catastrophe'

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'A beautifully illustrated picture book which retells an old folktale and introduces readers to a wide variety of birds'