Allele Island is a beachcomber's paradise for a charming creature named Eena Beena, who tends her stretch of beach--and the hapless castaways who wash up there--as if it were her own private garden. Everything changes when a deranged ape named Prospero arrives with plans for an evil experiment. A novel of adventure, word play, and high literary nonsense.
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"The Flown Sky is inventive, charmingly written, and certain to entertain. Mr. Olshan creates his own private island, patrolled by a lonely but plucky girl, a bad queen, and wonderful troops of talking fauna, unfolding an adventure in each bright chapter." -- Professor Jean McGarry, Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University
"A novel with equal parts adventure, fable, fantasy, and satire...The Flown Sky will entertain any young reader with a spirit of intellectual playfulness." -- Paul Barret, Academic Dean, St. Albans School for Boys, Washington, D.C.
"After hearing a bit of Eena Beena's story out loud, my guests, all fellow writers, fought over who would borrow The Flown Sky first." -- Jane Conly, Newbery Award-winning author
"An impossibly enjoyable, upside downish, totally convincing darling of a story." -- Ben Reynolds, Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University
"Every once in a while there comes a story so beautifully written that you can barely resist grabbing it from your child's hands to savor yourself. The Flown Sky is such a tale. Its lovely imagery and charming miniature characters will awaken and tickle a young reader's imagination!" -- Mary Jo Kirschman, Librarian, Roland Park Elementary-Middle School, Baltimore
"A novel with equal parts adventure, fable, fantasy, and satire...The Flown Sky will entertain any young reader with a spirit of intellectual playfulness." -- Paul Barret, Academic Dean, St. Albans School for Boys, Washington, D.C.
"After hearing a bit of Eena Beena's story out loud, my guests, all fellow writers, fought over who would borrow The Flown Sky first." -- Jane Conly, Newbery Award-winning author
"An impossibly enjoyable, upside downish, totally convincing darling of a story." -- Ben Reynolds, Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University
"Every once in a while there comes a story so beautifully written that you can barely resist grabbing it from your child's hands to savor yourself. The Flown Sky is such a tale. Its lovely imagery and charming miniature characters will awaken and tickle a young reader's imagination!" -- Mary Jo Kirschman, Librarian, Roland Park Elementary-Middle School, Baltimore
About the Author
Matthew Olshan was educated at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Oxford Universities. He enjoys beachcombing, flying planes, and making up stories for his daughter. He is the author of Finn: a novel.
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THERE was a certain hour of a summer evening on Allele Island when the Southern Sea drew away its surf like the train of a gown, startling the sand crabs and plovers and revealing a hidden world of tidal pools along the shore. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cinnamon log, glass octopus, flown sky, judgment bench, air beads, copper door, head engineer, flea powder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eena Beena, Miss Jackie, Allele Island, Windward Beach, Professor Legume, Zandra Palace, Southern Sea, Xylem Sea, Central Nursery, Don Yaphet, Miss Eena, Cello Cove, Circle Line, Perennial Isle, Queen Mum, Colonel Thibideaux, Mount Minnetubo, Volume Twelve, Royal Pelican, Field of Anemones, Oyster Cove, University Island, Spiral Shelf, Iktut Island, Lake Bromeliad New!
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THERE was a certain hour of a summer evening on Allele Island when the Southern Sea drew away its surf like the train of a gown, startling the sand crabs and plovers and revealing a hidden world of tidal pools along the shore. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cinnamon log, glass octopus, flown sky, judgment bench, air beads, copper door, head engineer, flea powder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eena Beena, Miss Jackie, Allele Island, Windward Beach, Professor Legume, Zandra Palace, Southern Sea, Xylem Sea, Central Nursery, Don Yaphet, Miss Eena, Cello Cove, Circle Line, Perennial Isle, Queen Mum, Colonel Thibideaux, Mount Minnetubo, Volume Twelve, Royal Pelican, Field of Anemones, Oyster Cove, University Island, Spiral Shelf, Iktut Island, Lake Bromeliad New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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