Moonbird

Orla can't hear the sounds of the earth, doesn't answer when his parents call his name, and seems to be shut away in his own world.

When he meets the mysterious moonbird he learns how to speak with his hands and listen with his eyes, but now his parents must learn how to understand him.

A magically illustrated new folktale which stands both as a magical story and as a poignant allegory of the isolation and frustration which an inability to communicate brings to both children and their carers.

In Dunbar's book, deafness is a gift which allows other senses to be developed, and it is those who fail to understand alternative means of communication who lack something in their lives.