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Anthony McGowan, Guest Editor June 2015 chose Animal Farm as one of his favourite short novels.. "Garner has a good claim to be our finest living children’s writer (although he baulks at such restrictive definitions). His work has always interwoven fantasy and a grittily-rendered reality, but here realism comes to the fore. Four very short linked stories take us through four generations of one family in a Cheshire village. You could say that the stories are ‘about’ the nature of craftsmanship, the importance of geography in our psychic development, how wisdom is passed down through the generations, about how seemingly simple people lead lives of depth and resonance. Yet somehow it’s not really what its about that gives The Stone Book Quartet its power: it’s what it is: a self-contained, perfect work of art, as heavy in the hand as a granite rock."
A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain's greatest children's novelists.
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A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain's greatest children's novelists. Through four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that has now disappeared, Alan Garner vividly brings to life a landscape situated on the outskirts of industrial Manchester.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Stone Book Quartet and determined it is suitable for children aged 11-14 years old
The Stone Book Quartet features in the following genres: Featured Books for 13+ readers, Recommendations, Short Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Recommended Children's eBooks, Featured Books for 11+ readers
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The Stone Book Quartet was written by Alan Garner and published by HarperPerennial an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The Stone Book Quartet has 172 pages
Yes it is part of Harper Perennial Modern Classics series
£8.99, reduced from £9.99. In Stock.
