FArTHER

Grahame Baker-Smith, Grahame Baker-Smith

From Shelf: Picture Books for ages 0-100 years and over!

Wonderful haunting illustrations capture this magical story as a father's unrelenting passion to fly finally becomes a reality. This is a poignant picture book that evokes the deep love between a boy and his father.

A young boy, bewitched by his father's unrelenting passion to fly; a desperate craving that absorbs his every waking minute, finds himself entranced by the dream. When his father goes to war and does not return it seems the spell is broken. Much later, the boy, now a young man finds himself drawn once more to his father's drawings and failed experiments. Finally able to make his father's dream a reality, he flies. Will his own son be visited by this unrelenting passion?