The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales by Ted Hughes

The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales by Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into being. They are collected together here in one volume for the first time. These are richly told tales of sparkling intensity about animals finding their form, and God's struggle to understand what he has created. Meet the Polar Bear whose obsession with her snowy white fur is so great that she can only live in a landscape surrounded by her own reflection; the Whale, growing in God's garden beside the carrots; King Leo, who began life because God was hungry for his sausages; poor Parrot's painful defeat in the marriage-song contest at the wedding of Man and Woman; and Sparrow's heroic battle against the bird-swallowing Black Hole. There are stories here to suit chidren from four to fourteen, whether for reading aloud or alone.

'A veritable ecstasy of the imagination' Leon Garfield; 'This is a book any child or adult should relish.' Matthew Sweeney, Daily Telegraph

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

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ISBN 13	9780571214358
ISBN 10	0571214355
Title	The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales
Author	Ted Hughes
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2003-10-02
Number of pages	336
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