The Boy With Wings

The Boy With Wings

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  • Create Date：2021-10-22 00:52:16
  • Update Date：2025-09-06
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  • Author：Lenny Henry
  • ISBN：1529067839
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Reviews

Helen ，

I’m not YA and bought this for my （50yo） husband as the main character is his namesake - Tunde - as he’d not seen a character in a book with his name before。 Plus he’s a huge admirer of Sir Lenny。 Who isn’t？ The man is a LEGEND。 The book is charming。 The characters are nicely exaggerated for young readers and Sir Lenny’s language and hyperbole is fun， you can totally hear his voice reading it。 （No I didn’t get the audiobook）。 He uses lots of London-kid phrases and colloquialisms， and whilst some I’m not YA and bought this for my （50yo） husband as the main character is his namesake - Tunde - as he’d not seen a character in a book with his name before。 Plus he’s a huge admirer of Sir Lenny。 Who isn’t？ The man is a LEGEND。 The book is charming。 The characters are nicely exaggerated for young readers and Sir Lenny’s language and hyperbole is fun， you can totally hear his voice reading it。 （No I didn’t get the audiobook）。 He uses lots of London-kid phrases and colloquialisms， and whilst some aspects of the story are a bit unusual - maybe shades of Dahlian or Walliamsian grossness - it’s largely Henryan random！！ Of course Henry is inclusive and his euphemism of “looking like me” is lovely， knowing how hard it is to find role models and fit in when you aren’t white when growing up， from my husbands experience。 Lenny Henry of course being one of the first BIG names of British Black television！ The story is nutsy sweet and fun。 I think exactly what a young adult （boy） might enjoy。 The random fonts in the book don’t do anything for me but as artistic choice they add a bit of emphasis and make the story a little more zany to read。 Which fits exactly with Henry’s voice in the words。 His narration is so much what a young boy might think， the birds are lovely， but I guess I was a little bit disappointed when he met Aan… the picture told more of the emotion than the text， I thought that was glossed over a bit， and meeting Juma as well… was there enough shock there？ Perhaps things happened fast。 No time！！ Overall a totally fab book。 Really enjoyed and I hope it does well for Sir Lenny， will we hear more from Tunde， I wonder？？ I hope so。 。。。more

Kieran Fanning ，

A funny superhero story with amazing illustrations and comic panels。

Reference

google book https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=The Boy With Wings

hathitrust digital library https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?q1=The Boy With Wings&field1=ocr&a=srchls&ft=ft&lmt=ft

The British Library https://bll01.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,The Boy With Wings&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=Not_BL_Suppress&vid=44BL_INST:BLL01&lang=en&offset=0