Press Release

Enoch Pratt Free Library, Balitmore, Maryland, USA added 6 copies of Fluffy the Vulture to their childrens’ collection.

Fluffy the Vulture, by William Zicker
ISBN 978-0615266879

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.

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!

Bill Zicker is a patented inventor, painter, designer and author with an interest in language.
email: bill@fluffythevulture.com

Fluffy the Vulture is available to order at bookstores online and offline, worldwide!
Distribution partners include:

·   Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca
·   Baker & Taylor
·   Barnes & Noble
·   Bertram’s – major trade wholesaler in the UK (servicing over 1,000 booksellers) with links to major traders in Western Europe.
·   Blackwell Book Services – international library supplier
·   Coutts – library supplier and retailer
·   Cypher Library Supplier – a leading supplier to UK public libraries
·   Dawson Library Supplier – supplier to academic, institutional and specialist libraries in the UK and mainland Europe.
·   Gardner’s – major trade wholesaler, servicing the major UK book chains and internet shops as well as European booksellers.
·   Holt Jackson – January 2005, a leading library supplier
·   Ingram Book Company & Spring Arbor Distributors, Ingram International (Chapters-indigo.ca)
·   NACSCORP
·   Nielsen BookData – the UK’s main bibliographic company (not a trader)
·   Paperbackshop.co.uk – January 2005, a major e-retailer and Marketplace trader on Amazon
·   The Book Depository – a major e-retailer and marketplace trader on Amazon