Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Download or read book The Kingfisher's Gift written by Susan Williams Beckhorn and published by Putnam Juvenile. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Well, when it was discovered that the trolls had switched you babies (you in your floating water lily cradle, with the other babe in a nest of down), my friend the kingfisher was to give you each a gift. You see, we never knew that you had been changed in your cradle until it came time for your wings to grow and you to be starting to flutter and the other to be learning to dive. By then we loved you, and the water sprites loved her, and it was beyond changing things back. But your mother wept because you couldn't fly, and the water sprite mother wept because her babe couldn't breathe underwater, so the kingfisher tried to make it right.... "