The Birds and other stories by Daphne du Maurier Childrens Non-fiction and through them explains how

and through them explains how narrative functions

Stolen as an egg from the royal hatchery

cold ground among fifty others

the animals decide to stage a revolt

a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary

The Birds and other stories by Daphne du Maurier Childrens Non-fiction and through them explains howPaperback This collection of short stories enabled du Maurier's devoted readership to see her, for the first time, in a very different guise as an exponent of the sinister and macabre. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . ' A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his