A Country Child - Softcover

Uttley, Alison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903252016 ISBN 13: 9781903252017

Publisher: Jane Nissen Books, 2000

Synopsis

THE COUNTRY CHILD by ALISON UTTLEY - 1931 - ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- THE Authors thanks are due to the Editor of The Spectator for permission to reprint an episode, 6 Haymakers, in this book, and also to the Oxford University Press for the use of the Wassail Song, from The Oxford Book of Carols. The Authors and Publishersy thanks are due to the original publishers, Messrs. Faber and Faber, Ltd., for permission to reprint the book in this series. CONTENTS I . DARK WOOD . . I1 . WINDYSTONHEA LL . I11 . IDOLS . . . . IV . SCHOO . L . . . V . SERVING-MEN . . V1 . THE CIRCU . S . . V11 . THE SECRE . T . . V111 . TREES . . . . IX . LANTERNLI GHT . . X . MOONLIGH . T . . XI . DECEMBER . . . XI1 . CHRISTMADSA Y . . XI11 . JANUARY . . . XIV . THE EASTERE GG . XV . SPRING . . . . XVI . THE THREE CHAMBERS XVII. THE GARDEN . . XVIII . THE OATCAKME AN . XIX . MOWING-TIME . . XX . THE HARVEST . . XXI . THE WAKE . S . . vii THE COUNTRY CHILD DARK WOOD THE DARK WOOD WAS GREEN AND gold, green where the oak trees stood crowded together with misshapen twisted trunks, red-gold where the great smooth beeches lifted their branching arms to the sky. In between jostled silver birches - olive - tinted fountains which never reached the light-black spruces with little pale candles on each tip, and nut trees smothered to the neck in dense bracken. he bracken was a forest in itself, a curving verdant flood of branches, transparent as water by the path, but thick, heavy, secret a foot or two away, where high ferny crests waved above the softly moving ferns, just as the beech tops flaunted above the rest of the wood. The rabbits which crept quietly in and out reared on their hind legs to see who was going by. They prickedtheir ears and stood erect, and then dropped silently on soft paws and disappeared into the close ranks of brown stems when they saw the child. . She walked along the rough path, casting fearful glances to right and left. She never ran, even in moments of greatest terror, when things s

About this title

About the Author:

Alison Uttley (17 December 1884 - 7 May 1976), née Alice Jane Taylor, was a British writer of over one hundred books and was given an honourary Litt.D by Manchester University in 1970 in recognition of her literary achievements. She is now best known for her children's series about Little Grey Rabbit, and Sam Pig.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jane Nissen Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1903252016
• ISBN 13: 9781903252017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• Illustrator: Tunnicliffe C. F.