Download or read book Alan Garner s Fairytales of Gold written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition containing four original stories. 8-11 years.
Download or read book Alan Garner s Fairy Tales of Gold written by Alan Garner and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four new and wholly original stories, each evoking the themes and tempo of traditional fairy tales, are highlighted on every page by full-color paintings
Download or read book Collected Folk Tales written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service The definitive collection of traditional British folk tales, selected and retold by the renowned Alan Garner.
Download or read book Elidor written by Alan Garner and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1967 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four children discover a dangerous world of magic--buried in a slum--in this Alan Garner classic.
Download or read book A Bag Of Moonshine written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service The much-loved classic, finally in ebook. Stunning new CollinsVoyager edition of Alan Garner’s collection of folklore.
Download or read book The Well of the Wind written by Alan Garner and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In language as resonant as bells, a renowned novelist tells of young courage outwitting old evil. When a boy doesn't return from his confrontation with a subtle witch, his sister sets out through the forest to find him. Full color.
Download or read book The Weirdstone of Brisingamen written by Alan Garner and published by Sandpiper. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan and her brother Colin are catapulted into a battle between good and evil for possession of a magical stone of great power that is contained in her bracelet. Reissue.
Download or read book Strandloper written by Alan Garner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman, William Buckley, who was convicted and transported to Australia. Refusing to accept his fate he escaped and lived among the Aborigines for thirty years. In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is as true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary. 'A remarkable feat of literary imagination' Sunday Times
Download or read book The Guizer written by Alan Garner and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories about fools drawn from American Indian, African, Irish, Gypsy, Sumatran, Flemish, and British sources.
Download or read book Folktales and Fairy Tales 4 volumes written by Anne E. Duggan Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 1751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets. Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one-stop resource.
Download or read book First Light written by Erica Wagner and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described by Philip Pullman as 'the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkein', Alan Garner has been enrapturing readers with works like The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Owl Service, Red Shift and The Stone Book Quartet for more than half a century. Now, a group of the writers and artists he has inspired over the years have come together to celebrate his life and work in First Light. This anthology includes original contributions from David Almond, Margaret Atwood, John Burnside, Susan Cooper, Helen Dunmore, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Garner, Paul Kingsnorth, Katherine Langrish, Helen Macdonald, Robert Macfarlane, Gregory Maguire, Neel Mukherjee, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith, Elizabeth Wein, Michael Wood and many, many more. Whether a literary essay, a personal response to Garner's writing or a story about the man himself, each piece is a tribute to his remarkable impact. Edited by the acclaimed journalist and novelist Erica Wagner, First Light will touch the heart of anyone who grew up reading Alan Garner.
Download or read book Boneland written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major novel from one of the country’s greatest writers, and the crowning achievement of an astonishing career, ‘Boneland’ is also the long-awaited conclusion to the story of Colin and Susan – a story that began over fifty years ago in ‘The Weirdstone of Brisingamen’...
Download or read book Alan Garner s Book of British Fairy Tales written by Alan Garner and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-one traditional tales from the British Isles.
Download or read book Fairytales of Gold written by Alan Garner and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treacle Walker written by Alan Garner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize An extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers. An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading comic books, collecting birds’ eggs, and playing with marbles. When one day a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears on a horse and cart, offering a cure-all medicine, a mysterious friendship develops and the young boy is introduced to a world beyond his wildest imagination. Luminous, evocative, and sparely told, Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth, folklore, and the stories we tell ourselves.
Download or read book The Lad Of The Gad written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service The much-loved classic, finally in ebook. In 'The Lad of the Gad' Alan Garner has reworked five stories from the Gaelic layers of British folktale.
Download or read book The Stone Book Quartet written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain’s greatest children’s novelists.
