Grace is a pretty, young woman who lives in a land that is surrounded by dark and mysterious woods. Although she wonders what the world is like outside her home, she knows that anyone who has dared to go into the forbidding forest has never returned.
One day, she hears crying in the woods. Her desire to help overpowers her fear and she embarks on a journey that offers friendship, danger and wonder that she could never have imagined.
Come along with Grace on the magical, mystical adventure and meet the beautiful, giant birds of Zoon.
What inspired Grace and the Magical Birds and its sequel is Anna Marie's love for emus. She and her husband raised the large, exotic birds on a ranch in New River, Arizona. Anna Marie's job was hatching and caring for the chicks. "When I thought an egg had been in the incubator long enough, I’d hold it close to my face and whistle. If the chick was already starting to hatch, it would whistle back. This 'first contact' with the little baby inside the egg was always a thrill. "Emus are quite the characters. Every one of them, even as a chick, has a personality all its own. Since we hatched the chicks ourselves, they were used to being with humans. We had friendly birds that visitors didn't mind being around. "Now that we no longer have the ranch, I really miss the emus. So, even though the stories are about magical birds, you’ll find an emu in there."
Reader terms: Young readers, books for teens, books for children, adventure books, magical reading
