The Feather

By: Margaret Wild
Illustrated by: Freya Blackwood
Genre: YBCS - Picture storybooks
Published by: Hardie Grant Egmont
Published: 1 Feb 2018
ISBN: 9781760124212

Description

This is a story about hope, kindness and redemption set in a grey dystopian world. When a great feather drifts from the leaden sky, two children recognise its extraordinariness and take it to the village for its protection. The villagers, however, want to encase it, upon which the feather loses its radiance.

The children take it home and care for it through the night. In the morning it is again radiant, and when they set it free it leaves behind the first signs of blue sky and colour. The ambiguous ending invites multiple interpretations about the effects of selflessness and kindness.