Books with author Edward Ormondroyd

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.

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.

David and the Phoenix is a children's book published in 1957 of a little boy's exciting ventures with a phoenix. The first printed story by the children's writer in America Edward Ormondroyd, is a book of friendship of two unlike creatures: a little boy and a magical bird, and centers on David's learning in the ways of the mystical sphere. The story concludes with the phoenix's renascence. The story opens with David living in a new home at the foot of so many lovely mountains. The following day, other than stay into his new home, he opts to climb the mountains. When he reached the highpoint, he sees the Phoenix. At first, they are scared of one another, as the bird was being hunted by mad scientists for a few weeks and David had, obviously, never saw something like the Phoenix in his life. The bird is somewhat pleased by David's kindness, and exchanges a light towards him. Therefore, the Phoenix agrees that he must provide David with knowledge of the different mythical creatures in the world to let him explore some wonderful myths. Although years of hiding away from scientists have made the bird's wings floppy, and David has to train the pretty whacky bird on his flying. Edward Ormondroyd is a story writer. He is most famous for David and the Phoenix, a mythological book. His Time at the Top was made into a television show. Edward was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, and was raised in Pennsylvania and Michigan before completing two years on a destroyer escort in WWII. After the war he enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, with a Bachelor's degree in English and a masters in Library Science. He then emigrated from Berkeley to Newfield a little town west of Ithaca, New York. As of today, he resides in Trumansburg, New York.