《大卫与凤凰》David and the Phoenix

英文名：David and the Phoenix

中文名：《大卫与凤凰》
作者: Edward Ormondroyd

内容介绍：

大卫知道，一个人爬山时应该做好任何准备，但他做梦也没想到，6月的那个早晨，他在山壁上会发现什么。那里站着一只巨大的鸟，头像老鹰，脖子像天鹅，还有一个猩红的徽章。最令人惊奇的是，这只鸟在地上有一本打开的书，正在读它的书！这是大卫第一次看到这只鸟。

这是大卫第一次看到神话般的凤凰，也是双方愉快而有利可图的合作的开始。凤凰发现大卫的教育有很大的欠缺--他在 "如何分辨真假独角兽 "这样的问题上不及格--并承诺用实际的教育来补充，这种教育将是对生活的一种准备。一本精彩的读物，冒险而又非常有趣，其中有很多神奇以及幽默的妙趣。

David knew that one should be prepared for anything when one climbs a mountain, but he never dreamed what he would find that June morning on the mountain ledge. There stood an enormous bird, with a head like an eagle, a neck like a swan, and a scarlet crest. The most astonishing thing was that the bird had an open book on the ground and was reading from it!

This was David’s first sight of the fabulous Phoenix and the beginning of a pleasant and profitable partnership. The Phoenix found a great deal lacking in David’s education — he flunked questions like “How do you tell a true from a false Unicorn?” — and undertook to supplement it with a practical education, an education that would be a preparation for Life. The education had to be combined with offensive and defensive measures against a Scientist who was bent on capturing the Phoenix, but the two projects together involved exciting and hilarious adventures for boy and bird.

A wonderful read-aloud book, adventurous and very funny, with much of the magic as well as the humor of the fantastic.