The White Birds-Jane Rollason

Synopsis

This beautiful fantasy book which is called “The White Birds” talks about a king who had ten sons and a great kingdom. When he had his daughter, who was the youngest of the children, his wife, the queen, died.
Years passed and he got married again with another woman, who was a bad witch, who hated the king’s children and wished to keep the power of the kingdom. Some time later, queen was left with absolute power over the kingdom.

One day she cheated on his stepchildren and took them to a forest far away from the kingdom walls where he cast a dark spell on them and they became pigeons.

When the sister found out about this, she ran away into the woods. Night fell and she slept under a tree. That night she dreamed with an old woman who told her that if she wanted to help her brothers, she should go to the sea. The next morning she went to the sea where she made a little cabin with sticks of wood. There she saw ten pigeons which were his brothers.


That night she dreamed again with the old woman from the day before but this time she was a beautiful fairy and she told her that she had to take the flowers from the valley and clean them a lot to build ten magic coats so that his brothers could regain their shape with the condition that he would remain silent until they were finished.
One day, while collecting flowers, she met the king of a nearby kingdom. She accepted with her gaze, because she couldn't speak to them.
The king’s brother didn't want him to get married because he was very jealous and then he could never become king.

The king went on a trip and the queen ran out of flowers and had a coat to make, in the only place where she could find them, was in the cemetery. At night he went to look for them, but the king's brother, chased him and he invented that she was a witch who wanted to kill the king.

Everyone turned against the queen and decided to kill her in the fireplace, one of the pigeons went to warn the king to go to the city as soon as possible while the queen was making the last coat in the dungeon.

The next morning, when they were going to burn her, she came out with the ten coats and suddenly the king appeared and told the truth to his people. Finally the pigeons became a princess, burned the king’s brother, the queen spoke again and they were happy and ate patridges.


Personal opinion

In my opinion this book is beautiful because it takes you to the time and place where the story took place through the words that are used, it is also very easy to understand and the story which tells is precious. I love fantasy books. I would recommend it a thousand times.


From this book we can interpret many things.For example, everything bad always brings something good with it, as much as it takes us to see it.Even though our relatives can harm us , we must be strong in every situation of our lives, because fate is written and everything happens for a reason.

Student's Name

Dani Pérez