Puck of Pook's Hill - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480101613 ISBN 13: 9781480101616

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Puck of Pook's Hill is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's, by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.

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Review

'It's the stuff of the imagination of anyone who ever lay on an English hilltop on a lazy summer Sunday and wondered about the history of the landscape around them - what do these strange names of the villages and hills around us mean? Why do we feel there must be hidden things in the forest and hedgerows around us?' --Marcus Sedgwick, Author of The Raven Mysteries

About the Author

Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in India but came to England as a child. He is perhaps best remembered for his children's books Just So Stories and The Jungle Book, and for his novel Kim.

Marcus Sedgwick is an award-winning children's author whose books include The Book of Dead Days, Revolver, and Midwinterblood, which won the Michael L. Printz Award from the ALA.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1480101613
• ISBN 13: 9781480101616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232