Book Description
for Dodos Are Forever by Dick King-Smith and David Parkins
From the Publisher
The dodos were happily leading idyllic lives on a smallish island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The date was AD1650 and soon (although luckily the dodos weren't to know this), there would be no dodos anywhere at all on earth. The dodos would be extinct - or so everyone thought. Beatrice and Bertie were joyously planning their wedded bliss and thinking of the dodolings they would produce, unaware of the dangers lurking off-shore in the anchored ship. A Children's Book of the Year 1989.
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