Shadows and Moonshine

By Aiken, Joan & Johnson, Pamela Hansford

Publishers Summary:
The prose of Joan Aiken, her uncanny ability to tell a great story in language that is classically beautiful, her fascinating characters, riveting dialogue, and compelling action, should be better appreciated. Like her father, Conrad Aiken, she is adept at a number of forms but is a master of the short story. In this fetching collection of what she considers thirteen of her best tales, she can be scary (everyone knows her fascination with wolves and witches) and poetic (as in "Moonshine in the Mustard Pot" or "The Lilac in the Lake"). But whatever she sets her hand to, it reads like the work of a master. Set against the lovely and luminous pencil drawings of Pamela Johnson, we have a a baker's dozen of magical tales that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned and the lights turned out.Read MoreRead Less

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ISBN
978-1-56792-167-0
Publisher
David R Godine


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on February 1, 2002

Gr 4-8 With a baker's dozen of those stories Aiken herself considers among her best, this new anthology contains tales originally found in Not What You Expected (1974), Smoke from Cromwell's Time (1970), or The Faithless Lollybird (1978, all Doubleday; o.p.). With delightful imagination and beautiful language, she takes readers to magical places in the back of beyond, where one can don long black gloves to reach the stars and pull them down, or meet weat...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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