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Ages 9 and up Bookcamp Original

The Bird Who Kept Time

A gentle 12-page picture story set in Snowcap Mountain, where June learns about naming big feelings and letting them pass.

$7.99
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Once, on an evening as soft as a blanket, there lived June. Snowcap Mountain wore a white hat all year round, and on clear days you could hear the wind singing across its peak. That morning June had woken up with a feeling too big to fit inside, a stormy, wobbly feeling with no name yet. A soft hum filled the air, like a lullaby somebody was humming far away.

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The snow was so fresh and deep that every footprint looked like a tiny bowl of sugar. When somebody asked what was wrong, June only shrugged. There was no word for it yet, just a heavy lump near her shoulders.

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Just before supper, a note fluttered down onto the doorstep. In curly letters it said: "Please come to the Ice Bell." The light was soft and golden, the kind that makes everything look like a memory.

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How Bookcamp books are made

Written by software, cut in paper, the same on every screen.

  1. 1The story engine writes itEvery Bookcamp Original is written with the Bookcamp story engine, a piece of software that builds a 12-page story from a hero, a world, a lesson and a tone.
  2. 2Cut-paper picturesEach page is illustrated in the Bookcamp cut-paper style: torn shapes in a small set of flat colours, drawn in code.
  3. 3Same book every timeThe text is fixed. You read exactly the pages you see in Look inside, on any device.

Written with the Bookcamp story engine and illustrated in cut paper by Bookcamp.

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