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Description for The Wren-Boys
Hardback. Illustrator(s): Harud, Oliver. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 116.
It is a cold day in Ireland, the 26th of December; frost lies thick on the blackthorn. A man walks the just-waking village, banging on every door, summoning the boys. Today is St. Stephen's Day, when legend has it that the Saint was betrayed by a wren's call, and the boys are off to the forest where they hope to find the traitorous bird and capture it by nightfall. But what will they do if their prey escapes them? Inspired by the many myths of the wren and the Irish tradition of hunting it, Carol Ann Duffy's ... Read more
It is a cold day in Ireland, the 26th of December; frost lies thick on the blackthorn. A man walks the just-waking village, banging on every door, summoning the boys. Today is St. Stephen's Day, when legend has it that the Saint was betrayed by a wren's call, and the boys are off to the forest where they hope to find the traitorous bird and capture it by nightfall. But what will they do if their prey escapes them? Inspired by the many myths of the wren and the Irish tradition of hunting it, Carol Ann Duffy's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447271482
SKU
V9781447271482
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-17
About Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed Poet Laureate of the United ... Read more
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