Book 3

Book 3 is well under way now. It will be a dual narrative which will introduce children to this kind of writing and tell us much more about Great Auks.

Here is a sneaky peak of both the story and the Great Auk narrative running alongside it.

‘Aukid was certainly feeling very jumpy. As long as he had waited and prayed to be able to fly, he wasn’t enjoying this experience at all.  There seemed to be lots of these ‘air pockets’ or whatever they really were. He was suddenly wanting to be on the ground, and especially in the water.  Uh oh. Water! This was guaranteed to lead Aukid into thinking about his favourite subject, food. Fish in particular. Not those thin sand eels that Park was very partial to although they would definitely do but big juicy ones.  Auk-sized or rather Aukid-sized!’

‘Distributed amongst one of the offshore islands of the North Atlantic, The Great Auks, once quite prevalent there, were gathered in small colonies spending most of their time at sea, fishing in the shallow waters within about 2km of the shoreline choosing to consume large fish with a high fat content.  The smaller, less developed Great Auks were feeding on zooplankton (small groups of organisms found in water) and much smaller fish.’