The Selkie Girl
by:
Susan Cooper (author)
"The Celtic legend of a seal maiden, who is captured and wed by a mortal young man, is related again by an author who remains faithful to the spirit and magic of the story but gives it a fullness and inevitability that only a true storyteller can evoke . . . The watercolors . . . blend the homely...
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"The Celtic legend of a seal maiden, who is captured and wed by a mortal young man, is related again by an author who remains faithful to the spirit and magic of the story but gives it a fullness and inevitability that only a true storyteller can evoke . . . The watercolors . . . blend the homely reality of life on a small, seabound craft with a controlled but intense sense of drama".-- The Horn Book.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780689503900 (0689503903)
ASIN: 0689503903
Publish date: 1986-10-01
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Pretty basic retelling of the "selkie bride" story, not really much elaboration aside from adding personal names. I did like that Cooper didn't shy away from the essential rape and imprisonment that characterize this story. Hutton's illustrations are, as usual, completely uninteresting.
First Line & Last Line:"The islands rise green out of the sea, where the waves foam over grey rocks, and strange things may happen there." A Perfectly gorgeous opening and closing to a story that is so close to my heart. Pretty much the same selkie story that's always told, but I'm glad the mother h...
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