Dick, Marjorie and Fidge: A Search for the Wonderful Dodo

When siblings Dick, Marjorie, and Fidge wake to find their home flooded by an unusually high tide, they expect inconvenience. What they find is a talking Dodo wearing gloves and a blue bow, insufferably proud of being extinct. The proud bird commissions the children on a quest to find the Wonderful Dodo, launching them into a world of gnomes, magical powers, and delightfully absurd characters. Farrow's Edwardian fantasy pulses with the inventive wordplay and topsy-turvy logic that made the era's best children's literature so enchanting. The Dodo's absurd vanity about its own extinction, the demanding ambassador who sets them on their way, the peculiar creatures lurking in every corner of this flooded world - all of it hums with the kind of gentle madness that treats nonsense as simply another form of sense. This is a book for children who believe the impossible is simply a place they haven't visited yet, and for readers of any age who remember what it felt like to trust a talking bird into the unknown.