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Featherland, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: F. W. Keyl
Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21310]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Featherland, or How the Birds lived at Greenlawn, by George Manville Fenn.
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As he explains in the last paragraph the book was written for the amusement of two little girls who were fond of leaning up against his knee, and asking him to tell them a story. Fenn was a very good naturalist, and I feel sure that he enjoyed looking out at the birds on the lawn, and seeing their reactions to one another. From this he has gone on to add occasional snatches of English speech, to illustrate to the girls the way the birds, and a few other animals (the dog, the cat, the bees, a hedgehog, the flies, the wasps), were behaving in each other's presence.
On the whole the language is easy, and suitable for young children, but just occasionally a word slips in such as "gourmandising", which would need explaining to a child.
I am not much in favour of books that make animals talk as though the