The Children of the New Forest (Hesperus Minor Classics) - Softcover

Marryat, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843914875 ISBN 13: 9781843914877

Publisher: Hesperus Press, 2014

Synopsis

Includes a foreword by Michael rosen

It is 1647. Charles I has been defeated in the civil war, but has escaped captivity and is making for France. Parliamentary soldiers searching the New Forest decide to burn the house of Colonel Beverly, a royalist officer killed at the Battle of Naseby. His four children are rescued by their father's gamekeeper, Jacob, who takes them in.

The children gradually shed their aristocratic sensibilities and adapt to the simple ways of the forest, working Jacob's farmstead and befriending other inhabitants of the woodland. But when Charles II raises an army and the spectre of war returns to haunt the Beverly children, they realise they cannot hide from their true identity.

This is the first enduring historical novel for children, which conjures up as much magic today as it did on first publication.

About this title

Review:

'I have faith that children will still feel the primeval pull of the forest and want to run their hands over the texture of that life, as rough as bark and as delightful in its detail' --The Guardian

About the Author:

Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848) was a naval officer, novelist and contemporary of Charles Dickens. He is best known for his novels Mr Midshipman Easy and Children of the New Forest, and for inventing the Marryat system of naval signalling.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hesperus Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1843914875
• ISBN 13: 9781843914877
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416