Synopsis
Sally could always fly, and although her mother doesn't believe it, her grandmother knows it to be true. As her grandmother is confined to bed, Sally brings her orchids from Africa, a shell from Patagonia, even snow from ‘where no one had ever walked.' Finally her grandmother flies with her, to her favorite place, where she takes her last breath. Sally never stops flying, even when she grows up, and she flies with her children and grandchildren too. The metaphor of imagination is tethered to Thompson's intricately detailed, dreamy illustrations—a house with an airplane in the yard… a page of wondrous doors… small boxes that might hold a gargoyle or a pair of red shoes. Beds sprout wings and roots and lakes lap gently at the edge of the bureau…
Publishers Weekly
Colin Thompson's enigmatic artwork once again takes center stage in Falling Angels, the story of a girl who can fly. Sally thinks she's the only one who possesses this power but soon finds out her grandmother once flew, too. (Hutchinson [Trafalgar Sq., dist.], $16.95 32p ages 5-8 ISBN 0-09-176817-9; Oct.) In The Haunted States of America: Haunted Houses and Spooky Places in All 50 States... and Canada, Too! Joan Holub tells of ghosts said to guard buried treasure in Arizona's Superstition Mountains; in California, the Winchester Mystery House, built by the wife of the heir to the Winchester rifle fortune, was designed with maze-like hallways, secret rooms, as well as stairs and doors "leading to nowhere" in an effort to elude the ghosts she thought were haunting her. ( Sept.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.