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Contos Arrepiantes
Muitos arrepios em Histórias Humorísticas maiores de 8 anos.
Contos arrepiantes, de Kevin Crossley-Holland
Contos arrepiantes, de Kevin Crossley-Holland
63 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2011
About the author
Kevin Crossley-Holland
210 books259 followersKevin Crossley-Holland is an English poet and prize-winning author for children. His books include Waterslain Angels, a detective story set in north Norfolk in 1955, and Moored Man: A Cycle of North Norfolk Poems; Gatty's Tale, a medieval pilgrimage novel; and the Arthur trilogy (The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing-Places and King of the Middle March), which combines historical fiction with the retelling of Arthurian legend.
The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal. The Arthur trilogy has won worldwide critical acclaim and has been translated into 21 languages.
Crossley-Holland has translated Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxon, and his retellings of traditional tales include The Penguin Book of Norse Myths and British Folk Tales (reissued as The Magic Lands). His collaborations with composers include two operas with Nicola Lefanu ("The Green Children" and "The Wildman") and one with Rupert Bawden, "The Sailor’s Tale"; song cycles with Sir Arthur Bliss and William Mathias; and a carol with Stephen Paulus for King’s College, Cambridge. His play, The Wuffings, (co-authored with Ivan Cutting) was produced by Eastern Angles in 1997.
He often lectures abroad on behalf of the British Council, regularly leads sessions for teachers and librarians, and visits primary and secondary schools. He offers poetry and prose workshops and talks on the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, King Arthur, heroines and heroes, and myth, legend and folk-tale.
After seven years teaching in Minnesota, where he held an Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Kevin Crossley-Holland returned to the north Norfolk coast in East Anglia, where he now lives.
He has a Minnesotan wife, Linda, two sons (Kieran and Dominic) and two daughters (Oenone and Eleanor). He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, a patron of the Society of Storytelling and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal. The Arthur trilogy has won worldwide critical acclaim and has been translated into 21 languages.
Crossley-Holland has translated Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxon, and his retellings of traditional tales include The Penguin Book of Norse Myths and British Folk Tales (reissued as The Magic Lands). His collaborations with composers include two operas with Nicola Lefanu ("The Green Children" and "The Wildman") and one with Rupert Bawden, "The Sailor’s Tale"; song cycles with Sir Arthur Bliss and William Mathias; and a carol with Stephen Paulus for King’s College, Cambridge. His play, The Wuffings, (co-authored with Ivan Cutting) was produced by Eastern Angles in 1997.
He often lectures abroad on behalf of the British Council, regularly leads sessions for teachers and librarians, and visits primary and secondary schools. He offers poetry and prose workshops and talks on the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, King Arthur, heroines and heroes, and myth, legend and folk-tale.
After seven years teaching in Minnesota, where he held an Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Kevin Crossley-Holland returned to the north Norfolk coast in East Anglia, where he now lives.
He has a Minnesotan wife, Linda, two sons (Kieran and Dominic) and two daughters (Oenone and Eleanor). He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, a patron of the Society of Storytelling and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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May 17, 2018
A obra apresenta-nos 28 contos curtos apropriados para todas as idades que fazem o leitor pensar atentamente acerca dos acontecimentos ocorridos. Através de jogos mentais fala-se de fantasmas, seres desmiolados e de encontros entre mortais e seres divinos. Com contos como “Por um Naco de Galinha" onde aborda-se o fato de Deus ser mais justo para uns que para outros, as narrativas são de leitura fácil e reflectem para temas diversificados seguindo como guia o fato de todos terem algo que seja um pouco arrepiante, um pouco fora do normal. Tratam-se de narrativas entusiasmantes que fazem o leitor ponderar e refletir um pouco para o que leu, dando não entregarem totamente a informação através da implicitação de certos aspetos. Recomendo vivamente.
February 19, 2012
Desta colecção, não é dos melhores livros... Ainda assim, lê-se com agrado. Não me parece e que estes contos sejam para oito anos, a não ser que as crianças estejam em pré "halloween" e a não se importem de deparar com alguns fantasmas nas páginas do livro!
Maria Carmo
5 de Março de 2012.
Maria Carmo
5 de Março de 2012.
May 31, 2012
Contos muito curtos e divertidos.
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