DUTTONS CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Large hardcover 

with a Dust Jacket

printed in 2005

1st Edition

HIGH

in the

CLOUDS

by Paul McCartney

Geoff Dunbar

&

Philip Ardagh

With his homeland destroyed, Wirral the squirrel vows to find Animalia where all the animals live in freedom and without fear. Aided by a hot-air-ballooning frog, a red squirrel, and a streetwise rat, Wirral's quest turns into a plan to save all enslaved animals in this "urban furry tail" by rock legend McCartney.

"Marking McCartney's children's book debut, this playfully meandering tale in which good triumphs over evil was inspired by Tropical Island Hum (2004), an animated film on which the singer/songwriter and Dunbar, the animator, collaborated. McCartney here teams up with Ardagh (the Eddie Dickens trilogy) to create a fanciful, conversational narrative starring Wirral the squirrel, whose mother is a storyteller. Wirral's favorites of his mother's stories are set in Animalia, a tropical island where creatures live 'without a care in the world.' Bulldozers soon destroy idyllic Woodland, and Wirral's mother is crushed by a felled tree. Her final words to Wirral are to seek Animalia, sending him on a classic quest. In grimy Megatropolis, Wirral finds Gretsch, the 'hairless ape' responsible for the Woodland's demise. When the hero learns of Gretsch's plan to obliterate Animalia, he sails off with his pal Froggo in the amphibian's hot-air balloon to find the island and warn its residents.

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