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A beautiful and fantastic tale of magic, enchantment and freedom. Its story of how orphan Ahmed discovers a golden egg which hatches into a little girl deserves to become a classic. Jane Ray`s magical Ahmed and the Feather Girl is gloriously illustrated with birds stars, bunting and acrobats in sumptuous colour. Ahmed is a poor orphan boy who lives with a travelling circus, working for cruel Madame Saleem, the circus-owner. But his life is changed when he finds a beautiful egg in the forest, and brings it back to the circus. From the egg hatches a child, a little girl called Aurelia, a child who, as she grows, sprouts soft feathers that turn into wings.ISBN 9781847802323
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