Now, Now, Markus or, I Need a Bird is a children's novel by Austrian author Martin Auer, first published in 1988 in German as Bimbo und sein Vogel.

The original was also translated into Japanese, French, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish.

An American English translation was published 1989 by Greenwillow Books.

When Markus comes back home and his parents, as usual, do not believe his story, all the beings that have been saved from the giant's stomach march into the house.

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