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The Airmail Audiobook Story Series: Episode 5 - Wish Upon A Starling

Wish Upon A Starling has themes of bullying, kindness, empathy, embarrassment, jealousy and trust. Solly, as always, demonstrates his kindness to customers and is rewarded at work. This makes a couple of his colleagues jealous, who then try to embarrass Solly. However their jealous behaviour backfires on them when their actions are exposed.

The main theme of this story is jealousy. Jealousy is a feeling we might have when we see someone else having something or doing something that we want for ourselves. The moral lesson is to not let jealousy control our actions and thoughts and that our self-worth should not be dependent on how we measure up to others, but rather on our own actions, efforts.

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Benefits of reading Airmail - Wish Upon A Starling

This short story covers themes of belonging, bullying, hardship, hard work, jealousy, responsibility and trust. This story can be read to kids in their early ages and is a great way to start a bedtime routine. It can also be read by children themselves. We recommend children with a reading age of 6 - 10 years old for this story.

Who are the main characters in Airmail - Wish Upon A Starling?

The main character in all of the Airmail series stories is Solly the pig. In this animal story and specifically episode 5 there are plenty of animal characters such as a crow, eagle, koala, pelican, starling, swallow and a worm.