White Hare

Nicola Davies

Description

Back then, humans and animals were fellow beings under the sky. Perhaps that's why it seemed possible for humans to change into animals.A story of shapeshifting between the human and animal worlds. Ostra is tempted into marriage with Wolvas the huntsman so that she can escape a harsh life but the birds and animals that befriend her warn her against him. Beautifully illustrated throughout.One in a series of tales that explore the deeper, darker side of our connection with the natural world. Be ready to feel a little bit of magic, and perhaps a few shivers down the spine.

Informations

• Publié par: Graffeg
• Date de parution: 21 janvier 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781912050208
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

Extrait

The White Hare Published in Great Britain in 2016 by Graffeg Limited
Written by Nicola Davies copyright © 2016. Illustrated by Anastasia Izlesou copyright © 2016. Designed and produced by Graffeg Limited copyright © 2016
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Nicola Davies is hereby identified as the author of this work in accordance with section 77 of the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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ISBN 9781912050208
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Illustrations Anastasia Izlesou


Nicola Davies


The White Hare



for Jackie Morris








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In the days before computers, before cars, before electricity in wires or water in taps, or food in supermarkets, before even roads and writing, people lived by what they could get from the land. Humans were closer to nature, at the mercy of the cold and wind, floods and drought, as other animals were. Humans and animals were fellow beings under the sky. Perhaps that’s why it seemed possible, back then, for humans to change into animals, and animals into humans.
In those times there lived a girl called Ostra, in a village by the sea. Not a village as we think of them now, with a stone church, a pub, a village green; more a collection of huts, shelters made of wood and stones, mud and animal skins, huddled at the foot of a cliff. People ate what they could take from the sea or from the woods above the clifftops.
There were a few fields of crops perhaps, maybe even some skinny little sheep, a few ponies, but