Wild Swans
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | Jackie Morris |
| Subject: | JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations |
| JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / General | |
| JUVENILE FICTION / Poetry (see also Stories in Verse) | |
| JUVENILE FICTION / Stories in Verse (see also Poetry) | |
| Publisher: | Unbound |
| Published: | September 2022 |
| Format: | Book-hardcover |
| Pages: | 384 |
| Size: | 7.00in x 5.62in |
- Our Price:
- $ 35.50
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- In stock
Additional Notes
| From The Publisher* | A girl loses her beloved brothers when they are turned into swans by her wicked stepmother. She embarks on a vital quest with one purpose: to find them and turn them back into boys again. But the task is complicated. She must pick nettles with her bare hands and turn them to yarn, to spin and knit into shirts for each of the eleven brothers. And all the while she cannot speak, for if she does, even so much as a whisper, it will be like a knife in the heart of each swan-boy. And so she knits in silence. And where there is silence, people will put words. The Wild Swans is a beautiful and lyrical extended version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen in Jackie Morris's enchanting retelling, complete with delicate watercolor paintings throughout this new edition. A story about love and bravery, about how to listen, and about how, when we do not listen, we hear what we wish to hear. "Beautiful, lyrical, and lovely." Joanne Harris on The Wild Swans "Jackie Morris does more than tell a story; she conjures glorious landscapes of the heart." Meg Rosoff. For The Unwinding: "A quiet masterpiece . . . a love story, a hope story, a story out of time, out of stricture, out of the narrow artificial bounds by which we try to contain the wild wonderland of reality because we are too frightened to live wonder-stricken." Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "The tales feel like half-remembered dreams, peopled with fairytale characters and magnificent creatures." Rebecca Armstrong, i Paper Best Books of 2020 |
| Biographical Note | Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She studied illustration at Hereford College of Art and Bath Academy and has illustrated many books, and written some. The Lost Words, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane, won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019. She lives in Pembrokeshire. @JackieMorrisArt |