Puck of Pook's Hill
by Rudyard Kipling
published
December 21st 2005
(first published 1997)
by Dodo Press
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binding
Paperback, 180 pages
isbn
1406503207
(isbn13: 9781406503203)
description
The magic of Puck transports little Una and Dan to centuries past, where they witness the making of myth and history, the heritage of England. Four 90...more
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Read in May, 2008
"'Now are you two lawfully seized and possess of all Old England,' began Puck, in a sing-song voice. 'By right of Oak, Ash, and Thorn are you free to come and go and look and know where I shall show or best you please. You shall see What you shall see and you shall hear What you shall hear, though It shall have happened three thousand year; and you shall know neither Doubt nor Fear. Fast! Hold fast all I give you.'"
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
Q: Do you like Kipling? A: I don't know I've never kippled...
Read it in the context of a composition date of 1906 or so, and see what a really wide and glorious view of the full range of good humans Kipling espoused. There's room for anyone with a caring heart in his story of the making of England: Normans, Picts, Bee Boys and more....
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Read a children's book by a man who did not talk down to children "Farewell, rewards and fairies, good housemaids now may say, for now foul sluts in dairies, do fare as well as they..."
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Dad read it to me as a child - sparked my love of all things both historical and English phase.
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This is charming English history for kids and people who have been taught history is boring.
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