a picture book by The Elephent King · illustrated by Arnav Mazumdar
The Bird Who
Preferred to Walk
A picture book for the grown-up who needs it too. A story about staying low to the ground when everyone insists you fly.
I once knew a bird that preferred to walk.
As luck would have it, this bird could talk.
A man meets a bird with great big wings who would simply rather stay on the ground — and can't stand it. He lists everything those wings could do. Everywhere they could go. Everything the bird is wasting.
It's a small, funny, rhyming argument about ambition and contentment — and who we're really yelling at when we tell someone else how to live.
A look inside
The first pages. How it ends stays between you and the book.
Some of us were
built to walk.
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