bookshelves: fantasy, fraudio, kiddlewinks, play-dramatisation, winter20092010, published-1984, adventure, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, witches-and-wizards, published-1927 Read from February 15 to 19, 2010 First edition cover A little boy's magical quest to find treasure. John Masefield's adventu...
Between the barren pasture and the woodThere is a patch of poultry-stricken grass,Where, in old time, Ryemeadows' Farmhouse stood,And human fate brought tragic things to pass.A spring comes bubbling up there, cold as glass,It bubbles down, crusting the leaves with lime,Babbling the self-same song th...
Read by Kim Wall.
It happens a lot doesn't it - that second read which brings far more to the table than that first encounter; in consequence it is upped from 3* to 4*. Very Taliesin, mythologically speaking, wouldn't you say?
Nation's Favourite Poems: Sea Fever and Cargoes features in a 1996 nationwide poll compilation.
First edition coverA little boy's magical quest to find treasure. John Masefield's adventure stars Sam Salter, Nickolas Grace and Charles Dance.Spiel - Kay, an orphan, has for a guardian the oily and egregious (though certainly aptly named) Sir Theopompous, who can hardly be said to care for the boy...
I really have a pre-ISBN single volume edition.
Yet another book I discovered from BookCrossing.I consider myself a knowledgeable reader, especially a knowledgeable reader of children’s stories. This book was completely unknown to me, as I would suspect, it is unknown to most here in America.It is the kind of book I thrived on as a child. It’s fa...
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