By Terry Pratchett
While an immense wave destroys his village, Mau is the single one left. Daphne—a vacationer from the opposite aspect of the globe—is the only real survivor of a shipwreck. Separated by means of language and customs, the 2 are united via disaster. Slowly, they're joined by way of different refugees. And as they try to guard the small band, Mau and Daphne defy ancestral spirits, problem dying himself, and discover a long-hidden mystery that actually turns the realm the wrong way up.
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Download e-book for iPad: A Necklace of Raindrops, and Other Stories by Joan Aiken
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Here are 8 gloriously innovative tales for 8 enjoyable classes of bedtime examining. There's a flying apple pie, a cat that's higher than an elephant, a home that lays an egg, storybook animals that jump out in their books at evening, and a wealth of alternative amazing characters and ideas, all with the colourful, dreamlike caliber of some of the best fairy tales.
Joan Aiken's scrumptious prose is a pleasure to learn aloud to very younger listeners but uncomplicated adequate for the autonomous reader to take pleasure in on his or her personal. Kevin Hawkes's illustrations -- approximately 60 of them -- seize with nice aptitude and enjoyable the mystical adventures and the triumph of the great over the bad.
ISBN: 0224614622
EAN: 9780224614627
ASIN: 0224614622
SKU: YU-KNH0007073
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 1968
Number of Pages: 112
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Author identify: joan aiken (Born: 1924/09/04 / Died: 2004/01/04)
Author Description: Joan Delano Aiken used to be a miles enjoyed English author who obtained the MBE for companies rather to Children's Literature. This yr marks the fiftieth ANNIVERSARY of her most famed vintage children's e-book, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE, that is being celebrated with occasions at Cheltenham competition within the united kingdom and at a different occasion in ny in October, and with the book of 3 fresh versions of the booklet and a brand new AUDIO recorded through her daughter Lizza.
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Joan's Life:
She was once born in Rye, East Sussex, right into a relatives of writers, together with her father, Conrad Aiken (who gained a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry), and her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge.
She labored for the United countries details workplace in the course of the moment global war,and then as an editor and freelance on Argosy journal sooner than she began writing complete time, regularly children's books and thrillers. For her books she acquired the dad or mum Award (1969) and the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972).
Her hottest sequence, the "Wolves Chronicles" which begun with 'The Wolves of Willoughby Chase', used to be set in an complex trade interval of heritage in a Britain during which James II was once by no means deposed within the excellent Revolution,and so supporters of the home of Hanover constantly plot to overthrow the Stuart Kings. those books additionally function cockney urchin heroine Dido Twite and her adventures and travels everywhere in the world.
Another sequence of children's books approximately Arabel and her raven Mortimer are illustrated through Quentin Blake, and feature been proven at the BBC as Jackanory and drama sequence. Others together with the a lot enjoyed 'Necklace of Raindrops' and award profitable 'Kingdom less than the Sea' are illustrated through Jan Pieńkowski.
Her many novels for adults comprise numerous that proceed or supplement novels via Jane Austen. those comprise 'Mansfield Revisited' and 'Jane Fairfax'.
Aiken was once a lifelong fan of ghost tales. She set her grownup supernatural novel The Haunting Of Lamb apartment at Lamb apartment in Rye (now a countrywide belief property). This ghost tale recounts in fictional shape an alleged haunting skilled by means of former citizens of the home, Henry James and E. F. Benson, either one of whom additionally wrote ghost tales. Aiken's father, Conrad Aiken, additionally authored a small variety of striking ghost stories.
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47 Nation 26/6/08 16:43 Page 48 N AT I O N ‘Oh, I’m not bad with a spear, and I had to find out,’ said Nawi, grinning. ‘Someone had to eat the first oyster, you know. ’ Nawi’s permanent smile turned down a little. ‘I’m a bit strange, yes? And the priests don’t like me much. If I told everyone, and someone died, I think things would be very tricky for me. But someone should know, and you are a boy who asks questions. Don’t use it until I’m dead, all right? ’ And there on the rocks, as the sunset made a path of red across the sea, Mau learned the shark word.
Well, he could do another five miles. And soon he’d see the light of the fires. Paddling faster, eyes straining to see the darker shape in the strange twilight, he made out the whiteness of the surf over the reef. And soon, please, soon he would see the light of the fires! Now he could smell them, all the smells of the land except the one he wanted, which was the smell of smoke. And then, there it was, a sharp little tone in the scents of sea and forest. There was a fire somewhere. He couldn’t see it, but where there was smoke there were people.
He turns to look at his enemy, to watch what he does and find his weakness. He let the canoe slide out of the lagoon, and easily rode the surf into the ocean, and then he looked around, like a man. The horizon was one great cloud, boiling and climbing, full of fire and lightning and growling like a nightmare. A wave crashed in the coral and that was wrong, too. Mau knew the sea, and there was also something wrong with that. The Boys’ Island was falling way behind him, because a terrible current was dragging him towards the great bag of storms.
