Wings to Change the World: America

By Claudia Compagnucci

This original story based on the damage man is inflicting on the Earth is retold through the point of view of the animals that take part in it. Two little birds, an ovenbird, and a swallow start a plan on how to solve this major problem regarding the environment. Ray, the brave swallow, witnesses the disaster on her migration route to the south. Once in the southern hemisphere, she meets her friend Wind, the ovenbird. Following their determination and encountering many obstacles on their way, they seek their objective in an attempt to make a change. Would you help them save the world?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Nov 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504391429

Claudia Compagnucci

Claudia Compagnucci has been a bilingual English teacher in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the last thirty years. She holds a degree in Management of Education USAL. In 2008, Claudia took a coaching programme course with the talented American author and personal coach Jack Canfield. After that, she studied Organizational Coaching at Universidad del Salvador USAL in Buenos Aires. Her knowledge and experience led her to start helping other people, mostly English teachers and educators who wanted to improve their performances and have a different perspective on their own lives. She had had a book for children in her mind for a long time. So the day came when she wrote “Wings to Change the World” “America,” with the aim of reaching the generations of the future and encouraging them to discover a new way to live in a better world. This activity book accompanies the original book and is meant to help teachers and students at schools. Today Claudia reaches many children personally in schools and libraries where she shares readings of her books. She as well enjoys helping people through her writings and coaching courses, giving them the opportunity to find their inner wisdom to help them make progress. Find out more at claudcomp INSTAGRAM.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-9141-2 (sc)

978-1-5043-9142-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017917040

Balboa Press rev. date: 01/25/2018

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Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE AUTHOR´S WORDS

CHAPTER 1

Wind, the ovenbird

CHAPTER 2

Ray, the swallow

CHAPTER 3

Otti, the Otter

CHAPTER 4

Fast, the giant tortoise

CHAPTER 5

Wind builds a new house

CHAPTER 6

Sleepy, the sloth

CHAPTER 7

Mision, the Jaguar

CHAPTER 8

Freedom, the seagull

CHAPTER 9

If only man could see

CHAPTER 10

Persevearance, the Arctic tern

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank my own children who have always been an inspiration to me. I would also like to thank all my students, especially one from whom I learnt some of the most important lessons in life. Thanks to my father who shared his love for birds with all the children in the family, teaching each one of them to observe and appreciate nature.

With love

Claudia Compagnucci

THE AUTHOR´S WORDS

After having published my first novel, Northern Hemisphere Southern Hemisphere, The Power of Love in Spanish and in English, I knew I had something else to communicate. I had had this book for children in my mind for quite a long time. Teaching children about so many things in our English classes had opened a door to writing my own book for them. Environmental problems around the world were clearly showing me there was something else to do. I thought that we, as adults, had to assume our responsibility to help them live in a better world. I knew there were many people and organizations hardly working to achieve better results regarding this matter.Writing for children was a priority. My aim was to help them to become aware, through a story told under the point of view of animals, of what we can do if we decide to save the Earth. This tiny, brave creature Wind the ovenbird will find out if he can fly around the globe starting his trip from the end of the world. If animals can achieve a major task in the story what else can we do? This is the question I want every child around the world to think about, for they have in their hands the future of our planet.God bless all the children around the world.

Claudia Compagnucci

CHAPTER 1

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Wind, the ovenbird

I´d like -to be a swallow, said Wind. Why? You can´t! You are an ovenbird,exclaimed his father. Wind was a smart ovenbird that lived in the countryside in Buenos Aires province in Argentina. He loved flying and building mud houses. Ovenbirds are fabulous builders. They are said to be the best constructors in the world of birds. If Wind hadn´t been an ovenbird he would have made a great architect. He very much loved the open wind when he was playing aerobatics. One day he had an idea, he was planning to go further on, he decided to be a swallow.

-Why do you want to be a swallow, insisted his father.

-Swallows migrate, they can see the world.

-That´s good! So, if you were a swallow you could travel around the world, uttered Wind´s father calmly. "But, you