Silver On The Tree

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781665932974

Get Book

Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper Pdf

The six champions of the Light join forces at last to fight the Dark in this fifth and final installment of Susan Cooper’s epic and award-winning The Dark Is Rising sequence, now with a brand-new look! The last great battle between the Light and the Dark has arrived, engulfing Will Stanton; his ageless master, Merriman; the three heroic Drew children; and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny is tied to the Light. On a quest through time and space that touches the most ancient myths of the islands of Britain, the six heroes fight fear and death in the darkly brooding mountains of Wales. And in the haunting Lost Land, Will and Bran find dream and nightmare, but also achieve the final talisman against the Dark: the crystal sword. In the dreadful last moment when the Dark rises, all the servants of the Light join to combine the powers of the sword and the six ancient signs. But even with the Signs on their side, can Light prevail?

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781665932943

Get Book

The Grey King by Susan Cooper Pdf

A strange boy and dog remind Will Stanton that he is an immortal, whose quest is to find the golden harp which will rouse others from a long slumner in the Welsh hills so they may prepare for the ultimate battle of Light versus Dark.

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416949664

Get Book

Greenwitch by Susan Cooper Pdf

Includes an excerpt from the next story in the Dark Rising Sequence, 'The grey king.'

Author : Shel Silverstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061965104

Get Book

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Pdf

As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Puffin Bks
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 0140311181

Get Book

Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper Pdf

In this conclusion of the "Dark Is Rising" sequence, Will Stanton, the Welsh boy Bran, and the Drew children try to locate the crystal sword that alone can vanquish the strong forces of the Dark.

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1178530920

Get Book

Silver on the tree by Susan Cooper Pdf

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 0590433164

Get Book

Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper Pdf

In this conclusion of the "Dark Is Rising" sequence, Will Stanton, the Welsh boy Bran, and the Drew children try to locate the crystal sword that alone can vanquish the strong forces of the Dark.

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01
Category : Fantasy.
ISBN : 0606022570

Get Book

Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper Pdf

In this conclusion of the "Dark Is Rising" sequence, Will Stanton, the Welsh boy Bran, and the Drew children try to locate the crystal sword that alone can vanquish the strong forces of the Dark.

Author : Dimitra Fimi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137552822

Get Book

Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy by Dimitra Fimi Pdf

Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017 Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019 This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children’s fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, to some of the most recent, award-winning fantasy authors of the last decade, such as Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The book focuses on the ways these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of “Celticity.” The term “Celtic” itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political.

Author : Barbara Tepa Lupack
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403982483

Get Book

Adapting the Arthurian Legends for Children by Barbara Tepa Lupack Pdf

For centuries, the Arthurian legends have fascinated and inspired countless writers, artists, and readers, many of whom first became acquainted with the story as youngsters. From the numerous retellings of Malory and versions of Tennyson for young people to the host of illustrated volumes to which the Arthurian Revival gave rise. From the Arthurian youth groups for boys (and eventually for girls) run by schools and churches to the school operas, theater pieces, and other entertainment for younger audiences; and from the Arthurian juvenile fiction sequences and series to the films and television shows featuring Arthurian characters, children have learned about the world of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Abc-Clio Incorporated
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1850899363

Get Book

Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper Pdf

"And Where the Midsummer Tree Grows Tall by Pendragon's Sword the Dark Shall Fall." The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. Six individuals have come together to drive it back for good: Will, the Sign seeker; Bran, the raven boy; Jane, Simon, and Barney, the grail seekers; and Merriman, the wise mentor who unites them all. Together they stand ready to face the Rider and the full force of the Dark. But the last object of power must first be found. A sword of legend magically forged of pure crystal remains hidden in the Welsh hills. Without it, the Light has no hope against the Dark. Will and his companions must travel through time and space in an epic clash of magical powers that will decide the fate of us all.

Author : Charles Butler
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781461658702

Get Book

Four British Fantasists by Charles Butler Pdf

Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most successful and influential of the generation of fantasy writes who rose to prominence in the "second Golden Age" of children's literature in Britain: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively.

Author : Claudia Nelson,Anne Morey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192584892

Get Book

Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction by Claudia Nelson,Anne Morey Pdf

Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century children's literature that incorporate character types, settings, and narratives derived from the Greco-Roman past. Drawing on a cognitive poetics approach to reception studies, it argues that authors typically employ a limited and powerful set of spatial metaphors - palimpsest, map, and fractal - to organize the classical past for preteen and adolescent readers. Palimpsest texts see the past as a collection of strata in which each new era forms a layer superimposed upon a foundation laid earlier; map texts use the metaphor of the mappable journey to represent a protagonist's process of maturing while gaining knowledge of the self and/or the world; fractal texts, in which small parts of the narrative are thematically identical to the whole, present the past in a way that implies that history is infinitely repeatable. While a given text may embrace multiple metaphors in presenting the past, associations between dominant metaphors, genre, and outlook emerge from the case studies examined in each chapter, revealing remarkable thematic continuities in how the past is represented and how agency is attributed to protagonists: each model, it is suggested, uses the classical past to urge and thus perhaps to develop a particular approach to life.

Author : Jane Suzanne Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136321177

Get Book

Landscape in Children's Literature by Jane Suzanne Carroll Pdf

This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces — that are the component elements of the physical environments of canonical British children’s fantasy. Using Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence as the test-case for this methodology, the book traces the development of the physical features and symbolic functions of landscape topoi from their earliest inception in medieval vernacular texts through to contemporary children's literature. The identification and analysis of landscape topoi synthesizes recent theories about interstitial space together with earlier morphological and topoanalytical studies, enabling the study of fictional landscapes in terms of their physical characteristics as well as in terms of their relationship with contemporary texts and historical precedents. Ultimately, by providing topoanalytical studies of other children’s texts, Carroll proposes topoanalysis as a rich critical method for the study and understanding of children’s literature and indicates how the findings of this approach may be expanded upon. In offering both transferable methodologies and detailed case-studies, this book outlines a new approach to literary landscapes as geographical places within socio-historical contexts.

Author : William Woodville Rockhill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317026587

Get Book

The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World, 1253-55 by William Woodville Rockhill Pdf

The texts of Willem van Ruusbroec and Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, translated from the Latin and edited, with an Introductory Notice. See also Second Series 173. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1900.