★ By a Hans Christian Andersen Laureate: Written by Cao Wenxuan, the first Chinese author to win this prestigious award in 2016. His works have been translated into over 40 languages and published in more than 70 countries.
★ Proven Market Success: The series has sold over 1.5 million copies! Focusing on themes of love, courage, dignity, and growth, it is deeply humane and uniquely poetic. As the HCAA jury praised, he writes with "a poetic, water-like touch, capturing real and sorrowful moments of life."

★ Rights Already Sold: Korean, Vietnamese, and Arabic.
★ A Journey of Growth: Using the motif of birds as a metaphor for freedom and returning home, this book tells the story of a boy's journey to find his father. It is a tale of familial love and returning to one's roots, as well as the distinct life lessons faced by three generations.
★ A Cinematic Narrative Style: The author captures pivotal moments and encounters during the protagonist's growth using a "long-take" perspective. Completed through a montage-style narrative, the text is imbued with a profound sense of mystery and uncertainty.

Series Overview (8 Volumes)
Draft Through the Alley, Bat Fragrance, The Firefly King, Grass Shoe Bay, In Search of a Bird, A City Without Streets, Su Wu Tends Sheep, Who Took My Grandpa Away

Though living with his mom and grandma, PAPA turned out to be the first word the boy Feather learned to speak. His mom told him his dad was a bird. With a natural connection with birds, Feather’s passion and affection towards birds grew day by day as he grew up. One day, Feather chased after a piece of plume he had never seen and ran into a black carrier pigeon that lost its way in the storm. Since then, this pigeon became his best friend, keeping his company all the time.
Every holiday, Feather would set out together with the pigeon to look for a large grey bird and his dad. During the journeys, Feather encountered a strange boy harbouring evil intentions in the town, a teenager always by his side and a blind grandpa looking for his son.... These experiences formed a jigsaw puzzle which gradually revealed a picture filled with wonder and warmth. In one of his journeys, Feather came across an ornithologist coming back from Italy. The two of them, though meeting for the first time, seemed to have known each oth er for long. Would this mark the end of Feather ’s journeys?

Cao Wenxuan
Member of the Council of the China Writers Association; Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Peking University.
Winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award (April 2016) and the Outstanding Chinese Influencing the World Award (January 2017).
Recipient of over 50 major literary awards, including the National Book Award, the Chinese Government Award, the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award, and the Gold Award of the Soong Ching-ling Children's Literature Award.
His works have been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, Serbian, Arabic, Persian, and more.

Notable Novels: Straw House, Root Bird, Ximi, Bronze and Sunflower, Fire Mark, as well as the King's Book series, My Son Pika series, and Ding Ding Dang Dang series.
Selected Literary Collections: The Melancholy Pastoral, The Red Gourd, Following Eternity, The Sweet Orange Tree, etc.
Academic Works: A Study of Literary Phenomena in China in the 1980s, The Second World: A Philosophical Interpretation of Literature and Art, A Study of Literary Phenomena in China at the End of the 20th Century, The Door of Fiction, etc.

Father is a Bird
Child of the Birds
East Mountain
Poetry and Medicine
Graffiti
The White Wall
Feathers
The Black Forest
In Search of a Bird
The Wilderness
The Unfamiliar Town
The Blind Grandpa
Attraction
Tears
We Are a Team
Parting
The Great Bird
Ying Valley
Going Home