Books with author Edward Ormondroyd

Originally published in 1957, this well loved classic makes a comeback! David knew that one should be prepared for anything when one climbs a mountain, but he never dreamed what he would find that June morning on the mountain ledge. There stood an enormous bird, with a head like an eagle, a neck like a swan and a scarlet crest. The most astonishing thing was that the bird had an open book on the ground and was reading from it! This was David's first sight of the fabulous Phoenix and the beginning of a pleasant and profitable partnership. The Phoenix found a great deal lacking in David's education -- he flunked questions like "How do you tell a true from a false Unicorn?" -- and undertook to supplement it with a practical education, an education that would be a preparation for Life. The education had to be combined with offensive and defensive measures against a Scientist who was bent on capturing the Phoenix, but the two projects together involved exciting and hilarious adventures for boy and bird. A wonderful read-aloud book, adventurous and very funny, with much of the magic as well as the humor of the fantastic.

Theodore loves Lucy even though she’s often careless with him. He’s an old experienced bear, comfortably smudgy, and he knows that it’s part of a bear’s life to be forgotten in a closet now and then. But when he’s accidentally mixed in with the laundry and gets washed and dried, he’s suddenly so shiny-clean that Lucy doesn’t recognize him. He needs to figure out a way to get himself smudgy and bearish again! Theodore is a classic, universal story of a stuffed animal’s adventures—a precursor to Corduroy and Knuffle Bunny. More than forty years after its original publication date, it’s as fresh and endearing as ever, with help from Juli Kangas’s happy, candy-colored new illustrations.

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“David and the Phoenix” is story written back in the early 50's for the "Weekly Reader" subscribers about a young boy and his desire to explore the world outside and in doing so found a friend to help him dream bigger dreams. David has no greater wish than to explore the mountains behind his new home in North Carolina and as he does he finds a wonder never dreamed of, the Phoenix. The Phoenix introduces David to an endless list of his friends from mythology and in the process opens David’s eyes to the wide world both the unseen world and seen world. In the unseen world David and the Phoenix share many adventures all the while a scientist is trying to capture the Phoenix to prove to the world that the bird is real. The phoenix takes David on "educational field trips" to meet sea monsters, fauns and other creatures. Plus they hatch a hysterical plot to scare off an over eager scientist from the phoenix's trail. David learns some valuable lessons about life, one is that nothing remains the same as one grows up. The other is... well perhaps you should read the book yourself and find your own lessons within the pages. A well written story, “David and the Phoenix” has no particular time setting so that it could very well be placed in current time. It brings back to me memories of times when life was much simpler, more pleasant and without the problems we as adults face. It’s a story of childhood and the dreams that children of every age share and which we all to soon leave behind. Of course, there is the traditional fiery death of the phoenix in the story. So, a tissue might be needed.