From the grand master of the American short story, these fourteen tales of domestic life in the South during the thirties and forties explore that extraordinary world of manners, expectations and unspoken understanding. The reader is drawn as if by magnetic force into a world rendered in breathtakin
Shock Forest and other magical stories
โ Scribed by Margaret Mahy; Laura Borio
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing; Bloomsbury Education
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 230 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- London
- ISBN
- 1472967798
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A magical collection of short stories from double Carnegie Medal winner Margaret Mahy.
A wizard's house with coloured windows that look into worlds of treetops and deserts, cloud-castles and diamonds. Two riddles that, once solved, will stop Shock Forest from burning. A flute-playing bear and a boy who just wants to spread his wings and fly... These fantastical short stories will take readers on a journey; sometimes haunting, sometimes surreal but always enchanting.
This collection of brilliant stories from double Carnegie Medal winner Margaret Mahy has wonderful illustrations by TBC and is perfect for children who are developing as readers.
The Bloomsbury Readers series is packed with brilliant books to get children reading independently in Key Stage 2, with book-banded stories by award-winning authors like double Carnegie Medal winner Geraldine McCaughrean and Waterstones Prize winner Patrice Lawrence, covering a wide range of genres and topics. With...
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