A Bag Of Moonshine - Softcover

Garner, Alan

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ISBN 10: 0006742904 ISBN 13: 9780006742906

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 1992

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Stunning new CollinsVoyager edition of Alan Garner's collection of folklore. Boggarts and gowks, fools and hobgoblins are only some of the strange and wonderful creatures in A Bag of Moonshine - a veritable treasure trove of stories chosen from the folklore of England and Wales. There are 22 tales in all, beautifully illustrated in black and whitel by prize-winning illustrator Patrick Lynch.

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From the Back Cover:

‘COME HERE, LAD, AND I’LL TELL THEE A TALE...’

Read about the hobthrust who turned into a boggart! See if the lazy woman from the Isle of Man can guess the name of the wicked goblin and journey underwater with a giant salmon.

‘Let’s see if I can remember it as it was told to me.’

Open 'A Bag of Moonshine' and find stories of magic and mystery, of wizardry and trickery!

A stunning collection of twenty-one tales retold by master storyteller, Alan Garner.

About the Author:

Alan Garner was born and still lives in Cheshire, an area which has had a profound effect on his writing and provided the seed of many ideas worked out in his books.

His fourth book, ‘The Owl Service’ brought Alan Garner to everyone’s attention. It won two important literary prizes – The Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal – and was made into a serial by Granada Television. It has established itself as a classic and Alan Garner as a writer of great distinction.

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