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The Fantastic Flying Competition

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The Fantastic Flying Competition by Tjibbe Veldkamp and Sebastiaan Van Doninck is a captivating children's story about a delightful, whimsical bird race. Various creative and colourful bird characters participate in a thrilling contest to see who can craft the most ingenious flying machine. Through playful narratives and vivid illustrations, this book explores themes of innovation and teamwork in a charming and imaginative way.
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The Fantastic Flying Competition

The countdown begins and the birds line up for the annual Fantastic Flying Competition, but one by one each team runs into trouble... Hijinks and fowl-play abound in this dazzling picture book, where only the reader can judge who the real winner is.

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The countdown begins and the birds line up for the annual Fantastic Flying Competition, but one by one each team runs into trouble... Hijinks and fowl-play abound in this dazzling picture book, where only the reader can judge who the real winner is.

Welcome to The Fantastic Flying Competition for birds! All the teams are ready to go, all except one, that is... Where are the owls? Team Owl is late! Did those night birds oversleep again this year? The countdown begins: three...two...one... In a gorgeous, whacky race-style story join this motley menagerie of hawks, chickens, owls, bats, toucans and many more flying animals as they all compete to be the winner of The Fantastic Flying Competition! With every flying contraption under the sun, who's invention will take them to the finish line and who will be trailing behind?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781849767613

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 September 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Tate Publishing

Illustration: 32 Illustrations, color

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 255.0mm

Height: 340.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 32

About the Author

Tjibbe Veldkamp is an award winning Dutch author of children's books and has been writing picture books
for over twenty years. Sebastiaan Van Donnick is an illustrator from Flemish Belgium and loves to make illustrations with a witty twist when he's not lecturing at Antwerp Sint Lucas College of Art & Design.

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