Forest Books: Michael Morpurgo Why The Whales Came

'You keep away from the Birdman,' warned Gracie's father. 'Keep well clear of him, you hear me now?'

Gracie and her friend Daniel discover that the Birdman isn't mad or dangerous as everyone says. He is Deaf. Yet he does warn them to stay away from the abandoned Samson Island. He says it is cursed and when the children are stranded on Samson by fog, Gracie returns home to learn of a tragic death. Could the Birdman be right?

Paperback 139 pages 1994