Falling Angels

Colin Thompson (author/illustrator)

Random House, Australia: 2001, 2010

ISBN: 9781741664201

Genre: picture book

Issues: imagination

‘The first time Sally saw someone else flying she was seven... As Sally floated over the garden, she saw the baby stretch out and rise into the air.'

There's something different about certain members of Sally's family. Without wings or technology to help them, they can fly. And Sally does what all of us would if we could - ‘flew to wonderful places, distant lands she had only seen in books.' She tells her aging grandmother of her journeys and comes to realise that she is not alone in being able to see the world with her heart, rather than just her eyes.

Colin Thompson's work, as always, is remarkable. Falling Angels reminds us to embrace the many marvels of our unique world. Enriched by detailed illustrations designed to be explored with the same wonder Sally feels when flying, Falling Angels is a book for all ages, carrying the reader well beyond the page into worlds of their own imagination.