The Axeman's Carnival
Book description
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits - but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we're staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now.
Tama is just a helpless…
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Tama is a helpless magpie chick when he’s rescued by Marnie and taken into her home that she shares with her husband Rob.
As Tama thrives and grows under Marnie’s care he begins to talk, and so begins The Axeman’s Carnival, a story told through the eyes of a magpie. I think the best thing about this book (apart from a very entertaining Tama) is the huge disparity between Tama and Marnie’s social media fame and the physical and emotional isolation Marnie experiences.
The book is set on a sheep station in the South Island of New Zealand. And while…
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