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Bird Singers : How Two Boys Discovered the Magic of Birdsong by Johnny Rasse and Jean Boucault (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGreystone Books LTD.
ISBN-10177840183X
ISBN-139781778401831
eBay Product ID (ePID)10069661655
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Book TitleBird Singers : How Two Boys Discovered the Magic of Birdsong
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Animals / Birds, Acoustics & Sound
Publication Year2025
GenreNature, Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJohnny Rasse, Jean Boucault
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight14.1 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width5.8 in
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Reviews"A mesmerizing tale like no other about how close we humans can get to the complex language and stirring music of birds." --Priyanka Kumar, author of Conversations with Birds "A unique, delightful, and beautiful book. There is a tenderness to the way Boucault and Rasse write about their childhoods, paternal relationship, culture, class, what it means to belong to a place and its community, which I found very moving. The writing about birds--their songs and sounds, what birds mean to us, the wonder and joy they evoke in us--is among the most original, insightful, and enjoyable I've read." --James Macdonald Lockhart, author of Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong "People have always dreamed of being as birds, flying, dreaming, singing. Jean and Johnny show us it truly can be done. We can all learn much from their beautiful story." --David Rothenberg, author of Nightingales in Berlin and Why Birds Sing "A celebration of birdsong and a coming-of-age story like nothing you have read before. The Bird Singers is enchanting." --Candace Savage, author of Crows and Bird Brains " The Bird Singers is a remarkable and delightfully eccentric story of dedication, resilience, and a true and deep connection with the natural world." --Lev Parikian, conductor and author of Taking Flight "I read this book in one sitting. I loved the story of the two boys, of their relationships with the nature around them, their community, and their relationship with each other." --Marc Hamer, author of the Indie Next Picks How to Catch a Mole and Spring Rain, "A unique, delightful, and beautiful book. There is a tenderness to the way Boucault and Rasse write about their childhoods, paternal relationship, culture, class, what it means to belong to a place and its community, which I found very moving. The writing about birds--their songs and sounds, what birds mean to us, the wonder and joy they evoke in us--is among the most original, insightful, and enjoyable I've read." --James Macdonald Lockhart, author of Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong "People have always dreamed of being as birds, flying, dreaming, singing. Jean and Johnny show us it truly can be done. We can all learn much from their beautiful story." --David Rothenberg, author of Nightingales in Berlin and Why Birds Sing "A celebration of birdsong and a coming-of-age story like nothing you have read before. The Bird Singers is enchanting." --Candace Savage, author of Crows and Bird Brains " The Bird Singers is a remarkable and delightfully eccentric story of dedication, resilience, and a true and deep connection with the natural world." --Lev Parikian, conductor and author of Taking Flight "I read this book in one sitting. I loved the story of the two boys, of their relationships with the nature around them, their community, and their relationship with each other." --Marc Hamer, author of the Indie Next Picks How to Catch a Mole and Spring Rain, "It could be the start of a fantasy novel: In rural France, two boys discover an almost eerie talent for mimicking birdsong. But competitive bird callers Jean Boucault and Johnny Rasse's dual memoir, The Bird Singers , is all true, and arguably more alluring." -- Audubon "A mesmerizing tale like no other about how close we humans can get to the complex language and stirring music of birds." --Priyanka Kumar, author of Conversations with Birds "A unique, delightful, and beautiful book. There is a tenderness to the way Boucault and Rasse write about their childhoods, paternal relationship, culture, class, what it means to belong to a place and its community, which I found very moving. The writing about birds--their songs and sounds, what birds mean to us, the wonder and joy they evoke in us--is among the most original, insightful, and enjoyable I've read." --James Macdonald Lockhart, author of Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong "People have always dreamed of being as birds, flying, dreaming, singing. Jean and Johnny show us it truly can be done. We can all learn much from their beautiful story." --David Rothenberg, author of Nightingales in Berlin and Why Birds Sing "A celebration of birdsong and a coming-of-age story like nothing you have read before. The Bird Singers is enchanting." --Candace Savage, author of Crows and Bird Brains " The Bird Singers is a remarkable and delightfully eccentric story of dedication, resilience, and a true and deep connection with the natural world." --Lev Parikian, conductor and author of Taking Flight "I read this book in one sitting. I loved the story of the two boys, of their relationships with the nature around them, their community, and their relationship with each other." --Marc Hamer, author of the Indie Next Picks How to Catch a Mole and Spring Rain, "People have always dreamed of being as birds, flying, dreaming, singing. Jean and Johnny show us it truly can be done. We can all learn much from their beautiful story." --David Rothenberg, author of Nightingales in Berlin and Why Birds Sing "A celebration of birdsong and a coming-of-age story like nothing you have read before. The Bird Singers is enchanting." --Candace Savage, author of Crows and Bird Brains " The Bird Singers is a remarkable and delightfully eccentric story of dedication, resilience, and a true and deep connection with the natural world." --Lev Parikian, conductor and author of Taking Flight "I read this book in one sitting. I loved the story of the two boys, of their relationships with the nature around them, their community, and their relationship with each other." --Marc Hamer, author of the Indie Next Picks How to Catch a Mole and Spring Rain, "I read this book in one sitting. I loved the story of the two boys, of their relationships with the nature around them, their community, and their relationship with each other." --Marc Hamer, author of the Indie Next Picks How to Catch a Mole and Spring Rain, "A celebration of birdsong and a coming-of-age story like nothing you have read before. The Bird Singers is enchanting." --Candace Savage, author of Crows and Bird Brains " The Bird Singers is a remarkable and delightfully eccentric story of dedication, resilience, and a true and deep connection with the natural world." --Lev Parikian, conductor and author of Taking Flight "I read this book in one sitting. I loved the story of the two boys, of their relationships with the nature around them, their community, and their relationship with each other." --Marc Hamer, author of the Indie Next Picks How to Catch a Mole and Spring Rain, " The Bird Singers is a remarkable and delightfully eccentric story of dedication, resilience, and a true and deep connection with the natural world." --Lev Parikian, conductor and author of Taking Flight "I read this book in one sitting. I loved the story of the two boys, of their relationships with the nature around them, their community, and their relationship with each other." --Marc Hamer, author of the Indie Next Picks How to Catch a Mole and Spring Rain
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Table Of ContentPreface: A Tale of Two Boyhoods Herring Gull Schooldays A Letter From the Prefect A Shepherd and His Flock My Duck Feather Song Duck Games Shadow Puppets Registration A Visit From Boucault Junior Bird Lessons Competition Child Prodigy Two Boys Son of the Wind The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Metamorphosis Trophy This Means War The Names of Birds The Big Day Face to Face Geese! Pink Hawthorns Boots The Nightingale Freedom The Song of the Cranes Ballbusters The Emperor and the Nightingale Molting Pecking Order Bragging Rights Number Eleven Behind the Curtain Gulls Under the Bridge Chambord Two Birds Music Fest Rematch The Morning After Dream a Little Dream
Synopsis"A mesmerizing tale like no other."--Priyanka Kumar, author of Conversations with Birds "A beautiful book. The writing about birds--their songs and sounds, what birds mean to us, the wonder and joy they evoke in us--is among the most original, insightful, and enjoyable I've read."--James Macdonald Lockhart, author of Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong This captivating memoir takes readers into the eccentric world of competitive bird-calling--following the coming-of-age story of two boys who found their voice in the natural world. This captivating book brings together two birds of a feather: Jean and Johnny, boys from very different worlds growing up in a small village in France. Jean is the genteel pharmacist's son, dressed in his Sunday best; Johnny's father is a rough, working-class sheep herder, always with the odor of animals clinging to him. Each year, over three hundred bird species visit their village, which intersects a major migratory flyway. The two boys' stories converge when Jean enters a bird-calling contest. He places second, and at only eleven years old becomes a child celebrity on the bird-calling circuit. Then Johnny starts to compete as well. At the annual bird festival, both boys are standouts, and a long, admiring rivalry develops between them, eventually culminating in the European championships. As they evolve as performers, the two boys' identities become more distinct: Jean is soft-spoken, while Johnny likes to play to the crowd. While most of their competitors are adult men, hunters who learned to call birds for sport, the two boys are fascinated with the pure beauty of birdsong, and in trying to transcend themselves through imitating birds. Their shared passion develops into an enduring partnership as performers, and they go on to tour the world in concert as the Bird Singers. This is a story as much about friendship as it is about birdsong. The setting is timeless and bucolic, with long walks to small village schools, games of pick-up soccer, and father-son birding trips. The chapters, which bounce back and forth between the two narrators, are woven through with descriptions of colorful characters in the bird-calling competition circuit and the kind of ornithological detail that can only come from a true passion for birds. There is poetry in the description of the different birds, from common seagulls to thrushes and bluethroats and nightingales, and something like communion in the way Jean and Johnny understand the feathered friends they imitate. Unique, evocative, and cinematic, The Bird Singers is the story of an unlikely friendship, sparked by a desire to speak with the avian world.
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