The Albatross

Collect all pages-cleaned and sized to
make a miniature book for your dolls.

 

Albatross has wings so strong
That he could fly the whole day long;
But if he's tired, he can float

Upon the waves, just like a boat.

       Assemble a mini doll sized book: Left, is the Albatross's illustration and verse. Visitors can collect all the bird illustrations and verse from "Bird Children" to print and construct a small book of verse for their dolls. Simply drag each png. into a Word Document, print, cut out all of the images the same size and staple the pages together at the left edge. Squeeze out some white school glue along the stapled edge of the pages and attach a cardboard cover.

"An albatross around one's neck" is an idiom that means - a person has committed a previous action that will hinder him or her from succeeding in something. The idiom originated from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge, wherein a sailor's killing of an albatross was thought to bring bad luck.

 

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