"A story so enchanting you'll wish it were real."
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
The Birdman

Jack Jenkins

Clemmie Jenkins

Gracie Jenkins
Daniel Pender
Will

Mr. Wellbeloved

Treve Pender

Mary Pender

Big Tim

Vicar

Miss Tregarthen
Auntie Mildred

The Birdman as a Boy