The Star Zoo. Harry Gilbert
Зарубежная образовательная литература. Level 3
The Star Zoo
Год выпуска 2012
isbn 9780194786614
Автор произведения Harry Gilbert
Жанр Зарубежная образовательная литература
Серия Level 3
Издательство Oxford University Press
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Harry Gilbert.
In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests.
In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has the name ‘Hummingbird’ in big letters on all her clothes, but she has never seen a real hummingbird. She has never seen any living animal or bird at all. The Book of Remembering says that there were once many animals on a planet called Earth, but that was before the Burning, a long, long time ago…