The Hidden Roads by Kevin Crossley-Holland

The Hidden Roads by Kevin Crossley-Holland

This is not a misery memoir, not sensationalist and not a celebrity memoir. In these luminous pages, Kevin Crossley-Holland, well-known poet and one of the country's most distinguished writers for children, visits the foreign land of childhood. From nights spent listening to stories told by his composer father and going to the 1948 Olympics through to idyllic cycle rides and discovering the first thrill of girls...these pages are full of anecdote, observation, and the old made new. This is also a book about budding self-awareness, the meeting-place of actuality and imagination and the ways in which a writer may draw on the quarry of childhood. Above all, The Hidden Roads revolves around the sanctity and splintering of family, and the bonding of brother and sister, and is steeped in the landscapes and layers of England.

Kevin Crossley-Holland is a prize-winning author of historical novels for children, a distinguished poet and translator and above all, a storyteller who revives old northern myth, legend and folk-tales for new generations.. no childhood is absolutely idyllic, but this one comes close to the ideal' Times.

Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur trilogy was translated into 23 languages, and has sold over one million copies worldwide. He has written and presented many BBC radio programmes and is a frequent speaker at schools and libraries. 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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ISBN 13	9781847247360
ISBN 10	1847247369
Titel	The Hidden Roads
Autor	Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Quercus Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2009-04-02
Seitenanzahl	288
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