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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 A wonderful read-aloud. Illustrated by Joan Raysor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[683,517],"product_tag":[],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":[],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u2014Edward Ormondroyd<\/p>\n