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Kevin Crossley Holland
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Publisher | Orion | ||
ISBN | 9781842555569 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
Six strange and haunting stories, set in isolated communities inland and by the sea, where insiders stick together, and outsiders - a girl outlawed for her illegitimate child, a wild man who walks out of the sea - are regarded with suspicion. Kevin Crossley-Holland has a genius for reinventing folk tales in a way that makes the characters real people, whose thoughts and feelings are our own. This little collection brings together some of his finest and most admired retellings, including the three best-known of all, 'The Green Children', 'Sea-Tongue' and 'The Wild Man'. Linked by ideas about exile and displacement, they make a thought-provoking book for our times, beautifully presented with line drawings by a notable artist.
Review
Kevin Crossley Holland has done it again with this little book of six strange and haunting stories. Kevin really seems to know the folk law of the Islands in and around Scotland.
These wee short stories are beautifully written and wonderful to read. In the forward to the book Kevin describes "a necklace with six pieces of shining glass, each one a different shape and each a different colour, all of them time-smoothed but still sharp-edged" and I can see perfectly what he means they are all individual but perfectly in tune with each other. The words and the stories are perfectly set together.
A beautiful stocking filler or for a child in hospital to have read to them to take themselves out of where they are just for a short while. Thank you Kevin for this wonderful collection. I loved them.
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