Then they get carted off to the Ring of Trees summoned by the noble and majestic stag who requests something very important from Kester. Kester and the pigeons escape Spectrum Hall (hold your noses ladies and gentlemen!) by the sewage drain. One unsuspecting day, he finds a flock of one hundred pigeons in his bare bedroom - and they start talking to him! He finds that he has the gift of the 'voice': the tongue of animals (if you've read The Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness you will be familiar with the 'voice' spoken by the Spackle or you can read my review of The Ask and the Answer). Kester is kept here for six years until he makes his escape. Here the children don't learn anything, instead they only eat, sleep or are confined to their prison-like cells doing nothing. Kester Jaynes, a mute boy and the main character, is torn from his family and is dumped into a sort of school known as Spectrum Hall situated on the edge of the island in the Quarantine Zone. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills, and this resource also includes questions for more in-depth written answer practice. All the surviving inhabitants have fled to a remote island in the middle of the Ocean. This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 39 from ‘The Last Wild’ by Piers Torday.
A wise stag needs Kesters help, and together they must embark on a great journey, joined along the way by an overenthusiastic wolf cub, a military-trained cockroach, a mouse with a ritual for everything, and a stubborn girl named Polly. “Alternately somber, thrilling, and silly.A raging disease called the 'Berry Eye' has swept through the world. The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures in the land have survived. The reserved narrative tone and tender yet peculiar view of animals give this piece its own offbeat flavor.” Kester’s spent the past six years at Spectrum Hall Academy for Challenging Children, a penal institution with a Roald Dahl vibe.
This fantasy journey with a post-apocalyptic setting combines a great fondness for animals with an appreciation of the freakish. “Combines a great fondness for animals with an appreciation of the freakish…. by Piers Torday RELEASE DATE: March 18, 2014. it's a moment as thrilling as when James flies off in the Giant Peach. "When ninety-nine pigeons smash through the windows of Kester's prison and carry him North to the last of the animals…. Only Kester, with the aid of a stubborn, curious girl named Polly, can help them survive. Then one night, a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach come to help him escape, and he discovers that he can speak-to them. He’s been locked away in a home for troubled children and is unable to speak a word. In a world where animals are slowly fading into extinction, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes feels as if he hardly exists either.
Eoin Colfer, New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series
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