Jim Sparrow of Woodford Green - Percy J Salmon

For ages 6-11. Visiting some friends one day in the nearby Borough of Redbridge, Percy took a walk round the garden, admiring its many topiary-fashioned trees and delightful shrubs. He was instantly aware of the Chirps, Cheeps, Chirrups, and Chatter erupting from a designer Leylandi. This was the residence of many sparrows it appeared, and even at this initial meeting he had already decided that here was an everyday occurrence, for if arguments and disruptions were common in the human world, why not the Sparrow world? Arguments might have broken out over a new neighbour, or one sparrow falling out with another, a dispute over what belongs to whom; why, it might even be an intruder, or perhaps nothing less than a heated debate on current affairs. And so began the tales of Jim Sparrow of Woodford Green. Certainly a must for such tales -- a giant of a leader, to console, assist, have faith, confidence, patience, helping other sparrows to fly along the right pathways of life. And in these tales. Jim Sparrow, aged sage of Acacia Avenue, delivers many words of wisdom, handed down through many generations, not only in the Sparrow world, but gleaned from human behaviour too.