This review comes from Shana Gonzalez. The Wreck of the Zephyr is one of my favorite books to share with children. Enjoy!
Award-winning children’s book author Chris van Allsburg brings us another original fantasy. In it a young boy, brilliant at sailing, scoffs at the advice of more experienced sailors and ventures out into a storm. When his boat capsizes, he finds himself on an island populated by people who sail in the sky with the use of special sails. Determined to master this new skill, he steals some sails and uses them to travel home. Forgetting that the sails do not work over land, he decides to show off by ringing his village’s bell tower and, like a modern-day Icarus, plunges from the sky. The ending is a little more gentle than the Greek story, and instead of perishing he lives out his life limping from his injury, searching for new sails to restore his flight.
Happy reading!
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