A Bag Of Moonshine

by Alan Garner

Other authorsPatrick James Lynch (Illustrator)

Hardcover, 1986

Status

Available

Call number

398.2

Genres

Fiction

Collection

Middle Grade & Teens

Publication

HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks (1986), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 144 pages

Description

Twenty-two folktales from various parts of the British Isles.

User reviews

LibraryThing member sirfurboy

This book contains a bunch of short stories. Some of the stories I enjoyed - many I did not. However that criticism should be tempered by oting I am not a huge fan of the short story form - I find them very hit and miss, and for me that summed this book up too.

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LibraryThing member AJBraithwaite

A collection of folk tales/fairy stories. Quick to read - none of them really wowed me, but I do like Garner's use of language.

LibraryThing member sockatume

A beautiful, bittersweet and uncanny collection of English and Welsh folk tales, beautifully told with rhythm and poetry. I read this when I was about twelve years old, a teacher borrowed it and I forgot to ask for it back. I tracked down a copy and was pleased to discovery that adulthood has not

dulled the magic of stories of wily foxes, cunning boggarts or strange women in the water.

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Fewer

Language

English

Physical description

144 p.; 9.06 inches

ISBN

0001844032 / 9780001844032

Local notes

A collection of 20 tales and 2 rhymes from England and Wales, with black and white illustrations.

1. Jack My Lad
2. Mr Vinegar
3. Grey Goat
4. Tom Poker
5. Jack and the Boggarts
6. Mollyndroat
7. The Three Gowks
8. A Fat Hen
9. Jack and the Beekeeper
10. The Salmon Cariad
11. Wicked Sparrow
12. Billy Bowker's Mowing Match
13. Hom Bridson
14. Cocky-keeko
15. Jack Hannaford and the Gold to Paradise
16. Todlowery
17. Johnny Whopstraw and the Hare
18. Belenay of the Lake
19. Alice of the Lea
20. Harry-cap and the Three Brothers
21. A Bag of Moonshine
22. Loppy Lankin

Ex-library.