The Red Feather by Ben Kitchen and Owen Swan

To Vanessa, my skateboard-sharing sister. BK To Jeannie and John. OS

First published in Australia 2015

by New Frontier Publishing Pty Ltd ABN 67 126 171 757 Suite 3, Level 2, 18 Aquatic Drive, Frenchs Forest NSW 2086, Australia www.newfrontier.com.au Text copyright Š 2015 Ben Kitchin Illustrations copyright Š 2015 Owen Swan This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted by the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiries should be addressed to the publishers.

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Creator: Kitchin, Ben, author.

Title: The Red Feather / written by Ben Kitchin and illustrated by Owen Swan.

ISBN: 9780957988439 (hardback) Target Audience: For children.

Other Creators/Contributors: Swan, Owen, illustrator.

Dewey Number: A823.4 Designed by Celeste Hulme Printed in China 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Ben Kitchin

Illustrated by Owen Swan

One day, Claude, Shelby, William and Maya went to the seaside together.

Claude found a red feather.

It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.