The Daydreamer
Containing seven interlinked stories, this work reveals the secret journeys of the grown-up Peter's metamorphoses and adventures in his childhood. It shows Peter's experiences as magical transformations when he swaps bodies with the cat, the baby Kenneth and, wakes up as a twelve-year-old inside...
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Containing seven interlinked stories, this work reveals the secret journeys of the grown-up Peter's metamorphoses and adventures in his childhood. It shows Peter's experiences as magical transformations when he swaps bodies with the cat, the baby Kenneth and, wakes up as a twelve-year-old inside a grown-up body and experiences falling in love.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099590613 (0099590611)
Publish date: September 7th 1995
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Contemporary,
Magical Realism,
English Literature,
Short Stories
A collection of related stories/chapters, telling incidents from the life of a boy of 10 - 11. Peter is a daydreamer and thus the boundaries between fact and fiction are often intriguingly blurred. But 3 of the seven stories are body-swaps and you guess the gist of the one called “Vanishing Cream” f...