Fluffy the Vulture by Bill Zicker

A painter, designer and inventor, William Zicker decided one day to get a pet vulture. Realizing the actual birds were wild and not able to be kept as pets, he painted one instead. This imagined pet vulture comes to life in a book about Fluffy the Vulture’s day, starting with a good night’s rest. From pizza to flamingos, Fluffy engages the reader’s imagination. Fly with Fluffy through a comfortably unfamiliar world of ink and colored pencil... in nine languages! Visit FluffyTheVulture.com to listen to the story read aloud in each of the languages, and follow along in the book!

Nine languages in color-coded, parallel translation, narrate a day in the life of Fluffy the Vulture. By looking at the color-coded text, it is easy to see how one word or phrase in one language appears as different characters in another. Fluffy the Vulture seeks to make languages familiar, in his confortably unfamiliar world.

Enoch Pratt Free Library, Balitmore, Maryland, USA will add Fluffy the Vulture to their childrens' collection this Spring.

Bill Zicker is a patented inventor, painter, designer and author with an interest in language.

email: bill@fluffythevulture.com