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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.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

This was David\u2019s first sight of the fabulous Phoenix and the beginning of a pleasant and profitable partnership. The Phoenix found a great deal lacking in David\u2019s education\u2014he flunked questions like \u201cHow do you tell a true from a false Unicorn?\u201d\u2014and 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.<\/p>\n

The author wrote a new Foreword in 2000 for our edition, here’s a quote from it:<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid and the Phoenix was<\/em>\u00a0my first book. I began writing it in the late 1940s when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. The kernel of the story popped into my head one day as a vision of a large and pompous bird diving out of a window, tripping on the sill, and crashing into a rose arbor below. Somehow (I\u2019m still mystified by the process) the bird became the Phoenix and the window became a boy\u2019s bedroom window. With that settled, all I had to do was invent what happened before and after.\u201d
\n\u2014Edward Ormondroyd<\/p>\n

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