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Patricia Lynch (4 June 1894– 1 September 1972) [1] was an Irish children's writer and a journalist. [2] [3] She was the author of some 48 novels and 200 short stories.She is best known for blending Irish rural life and fantasy fiction as in The Turf-Cutter's Donkey which was illustrated by Jack B. Yeats.
George Torode (30 September 1946 – 20 April 2010) was a Guernsey author, comedian and radio host.He was best known for his series of writings called the Donkey books, [1] which collect stories by and about Guernsey people (the nickname for Guernsey people is Les ânes – "Donkeys")
One room in the house of her childhood was called "the little bookroom", Farjeon explains in the Author's Note. Although there were many books all over the house, this dusty room was like an untended garden, full to the ceiling of stray, left-over books, opening "magic casements" on to other times and places for the young Eleanor, filling her mind with a silver-cobwebby mixture of fact, fancy ...
Island (Huxley novel) Island (Rogers novel) Island (novel series) The Island of Adventure; The Island of Eternal Love; Island of Exiles; The Island of Sheep; Island of the Blue Dolphins; The Island of the Day Before; Island of the Sequined Love Nun; The Island Queen (novel) The Island (Benchley novel) The Islander (Rylant novel) The Islanders ...
In the preface (entitled 'How this book came to be written') Marshall states: 'I must tell you, though, that this is not a history lesson, but a story-book'. The book went out of print in the 1960s, but in 2005, an alliance of the Civitas think-tank and various national newspapers reprinted it, with the aim of sending a free copy to each of the ...
Unfortunately, the magic pebble falls off the rock, and Sylvester is unable to revert to his donkey form as the pebble must be in contact with the wish-maker to work. The rest of the story deals with the resulting aftermath: Sylvester's personal attempt to change back into his true self and Mr. and Mrs. Duncan's search for their only child.
The Donkey Rustlers resembles stories by Enid Blyton, with children getting up to adventures and fooling adults in a way which would be unlikely to succeed in real life (although not all of the adults are fooled for all of the time, and it does touch on some mature issues in a few places). Readers have enjoyed its imaginative feel-good plot ...
JPEG, PDF, XML versions. ibiblio.org This site has the full text of An Inland Voyage, using the Cockbird Press edition (1991). Andrew Sanger (1991), An Inland Voyage, with a Travel Guide to the route , published by Cockbird Press (1991) ISBN 1-873054-02-5 , most up to date travel itinerary for those repeating the journey, includes annotations ...