The story is set at Christmas in the city with the beauty of holiday lights. The main character is a boy who finds a white dove that is injured and decides to help it. It is a beautifully done book and being pictures you get to use your imagination to tell the story. That makes this book special. It invokes wonder and imagination. The illustrations are creative as they look like a mixture of pictures and paintings -- you'll just have to see them. A nice story that can change a little every time you look at it through what you think and feel when you look at the pictures that tell a kind Christmasy story.

Beautiful! Thank you for the opportunity to read this book.
Before diving into the story, the book’s dedication touched my heart.

A creative picture story book that would be great to get kids talking about what they see and what is happening in the story. Colorful artwork with plenty of opportunity to discuss the creator's purposed and message. A pleasant picture book for the Christmas season.

Thanks to the publisher for sending me a free copy of this book. I really enjoyed this short picture book.They really do say pictures speak a 1000 words and they aren’t wrong. It was quick read but throughout the book u felt as if you were present. The story was easy to follow even without words

Would recommend its really sweet

A Christmas picture book with no words, just the illustrations. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. In this cute book, we follow the story of a young boy bound to a wheelchair who happens across an injured bird. Through the magic of Christmas, they both find their wings together. A fun read for young kids.

A wordless book that everyone can enjoy. However, I might be in the minority and did not absolutely love it.

I really enjoyed this book. It was refreshing to put aside a narrative and put the story together without pictures. I loved the art and the over all message of this book. I also enjoyed the nod to Peter Pan! Excellent story that anyone can enjoy.

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Releases November 19th, 2021.

There truly isn't much for me to say here. I'm clearly in the minority, but I just didn't get this. I understand the whole illustrations-only thing and I think there was potential for an amazing story with a great message, but I didn't feel that connection at all. I think the art style was amazing and I really love seeing disability rep, especially in books for youngins, but it fell short. I also didn't really feel, considering the name and it being shelved as holiday, that it really embodied any sort of Christmas spirit. The only things that made it Christmas at all were a few lit-up trees and Santa flying in the sky on one page at the end. That's it! I'm just really disappointed by this one and confused.

Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for an advanced copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This is a story for all ages, a Christmas story without words, so it can be ‘read’ by those too young to read, and by all regardless of language. The only words are by the author in their dedication to their children, which is lovely, if sad. The beautiful illustrations share the story.

The setting is a city at night, a story of a young boy in a wheelchair who finds an white dove, injured, on the sidewalk. He brings it home to nurse it back to health. The connection he makes as one whose body has also been impaired reaching out to this other being who has also been damaged is palpable.

The setting of night, especially when they are outside, adds a feeling of darkness, although the streets are filled with stores, some with Christmas decorations, some with windows lit for those window shopping. They are alone on the street, The mood set is a balance of love set against darkness, in an almost dream-like sense.

Once home, he addresses the injuries, and provides food and water, nursing the dove back to health. On his apartment wall, is a picture of Peter Pan, a nod to his desire to fly, himself.
We all have our dreams, and none seem quite so poignant as his dream to fly, to have ‘wings’ - to be able to move on his own.

A lovely story for all, encouraging the reader’s imagination and interpretation, a message of following your dreams, no matter how big they may be.


Pub Date: 19 Nov 2021


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No words are necessary. This tale packs a punch with the beautiful artwork!! Kids will definitely identify with the main character.

A beautifully illustrated Christmas book for children. The artwork has a dream like quality and tells us the story of a young child in a wheelchair who finds an injured bird on the streets of the city. The child takes the bird home and nurses it. When the bird recovers it flies away but the child is also given the gift of flight and encounters the wonder of Christmas.

It is a story without words but manages to engage the reader through the beautiful pictures. It is a great one for children and for adults to read to children, because it ignites the imagination. The reader has to find their own word to engage with the story and bring it to life. It is a simple story but definitely a beautiful one.

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I thought it was a wonderful piece of work that conveyed a lot of emotion through pictures rather than text. Every time I reread it, I could feel various emotions such as happiness, joy, impatience, and happiness.

No words. Interesting new take on the story. I love that it was bold enough to go there without words. You can interpret so much from an image. In the end i didn’t get the warm and fuzzy feels of Christmas. It was beautifully illustrated. Doesn’t capture you. The contrast in the art is slightly polarizing. Leaves you confused. May have worked better with words. Don’t know it’s the end and there’s no story really.

The description of this book sounded marvellous, I knew it was a wordless book so was expecting illustrations full of detail and story. I was quite disappointed by the lack of detail and the elements of repetition in the pictures. I felt it could.have had a lot more depth to the pictures which would have led to more conversation. I felt this rather skimmed the surface.

A beautiful sensitive book. This would be a great book to encourage discussion around empathy and diversity. The illustrations are handled with such a lovely sensitivity, the narrative magical and dreamlike.

This was a beautifully-done book, with twelve pages (double page spreads that is - very likely for each of the twelve days of Christmas!) and no text at all. It tells itself: a young wheelchair-traveling boy finds an injured dove and takes it home and cares for it until it's well, and in doing so dreams of flying away from his own confinement, just as the dove must also dream. Sweet story, beautiful sentiments, gorgeous Christmassy illustrations. I commend it fully as a worthy seasonal read.

Hmmm... Not a lot to say here – a kid finds an injured bird, gives it succour, they become friends, and in a dreamlike moment he sees himself, wheelchair left behind, flying through the city's night alongside the bird, with crutches in celebratory pose before they're discarded completely. There's disabled representation, there's a wordless story, but it's too short to really give you anything. More of a pretty vignette, I don't wish three stars to suggest I don't mean it well, but I can't rave over it.