Puck of Pook's Hill

by Rudyard Kipling, 1stworld Library (Editor)

Overview

The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer Night's Dream. Their father had made them a small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with him and with their mother till they co

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421839073
Publisher:	1st World Library
Publication date:	04/15/2007
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was born in India but came to England as a child. He is perhaps best remembered for his children's books Just So Stories and The Jungle Book, and for his novel Kim. Marcus Sedgwick is an award-winning children's author whose books include The Book of Dead Days, Revolver, and Midwinterblood, which won the Michael L. Printz Award from the ALA.

Editorial Reviews

Kipling is not known as a fantasist, but this audiobook features Puck, one of Shakespeare's fairies—or "people of the hills," the author’s own preferred term. Other characters include one of the old gods and a number of people magicked out of history for the amusement and education of a pair of English children. Narrator Peter Kenny's varied British accents are wonderful; a few, however, as authentic as they are, may strain some American ears. But the narration shifts easily between the stories and the poems in this collection. Some listeners may take offense at the anti-Semitic undertones in a poem and story near the end, but Kenny makes clear Kipling's ringing endorsement of (eventual) freedom for all Britons. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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