Puck of Pook's Hill: 7 (Macmillan Children's Books Paperback Classics, 7) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509830758 ISBN 13: 9781509830756

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, 2016

Synopsis

Playing in the gardens of their home, Dan and Una come across Puck, an ancient fairy with a gift for storytelling. Plucking figures from history to weave his magical stories, Puck takes the children from the Norman conquest to the signing of the Magna Carta. Set in the surroundings of his Sussex home, Bateman's, Rudyard Kipling's sparkling storytelling perfectly captures the myth and mystery of the English countryside.

Puck of Pook's Hill was first published by Macmillan in 1906 and features the original illustrations by H. R. Millar. This delightful collection of stories and poetry is a classic to treasure.

About this title

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509830758
• ISBN 13: 9781509830756
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368