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Enchanted journeys / edited by Robert Dunbar.

Contributor(s): Dunbar, Robert, 1940-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : O'Brien Press, 1997Description: 191 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0862785189.Other title: Enchanted journeys : fifty years of Irish writing for children.Subject(s): Children's literature, English -- Irish authors -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 820.809415
Contents:
Marita Conlon-McKenna/ from fields of home (1996) -- Frank Murphy / from lockie and Dadge (1995) -- Maeve Friel / from distant voices (1994) -- Tom McCaughren / from in search of the liberty tree (1994) -- Elizabeth O'Hara / from the hiring fair (1993) -- Sam McBratney / from the Chieftain's daughter (1993) -- Siobhan Parkinson / from Amelia (1993) -- Matthew Sweeney / from the snow vulture (1992) -- Martin Waddell / from little obie and the flood (1991) -- John Quinn / from the summer of Lily and Esme (1991) -- Eugene McCabe / from Cyril: The quest of an orphaned squirrel (1986) -- Janet McNeill / from we three Kings (1974) -- Meta Mayne Reid / from the two rebels (1969) -- Walter Macken / from flight of the doves (1968) -- Patricia Lynch / from the old black sea chest (1958) -- Eilis Dillon / from the island of Horses (1956) -- Conor O'Brien / from the runaways (1941).
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 820.809415 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00077504
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The very best of the past fifty years of Irish writing for children, selected by an expert in children's literature. Includes Walter Macken, Eilís Dillon, Meta Mayne Reid, Patricia Lynch, Marita Conlon-McKenna, Tom McCaughren ...

Cover title: Enchanted journeys : fifty years of Irish writing for children.

Marita Conlon-McKenna/ from fields of home (1996) -- Frank Murphy / from lockie and Dadge (1995) -- Maeve Friel / from distant voices (1994) -- Tom McCaughren / from in search of the liberty tree (1994) -- Elizabeth O'Hara / from the hiring fair (1993) -- Sam McBratney / from the Chieftain's daughter (1993) -- Siobhan Parkinson / from Amelia (1993) -- Matthew Sweeney / from the snow vulture (1992) -- Martin Waddell / from little obie and the flood (1991) -- John Quinn / from the summer of Lily and Esme (1991) -- Eugene McCabe / from Cyril: The quest of an orphaned squirrel (1986) -- Janet McNeill / from we three Kings (1974) -- Meta Mayne Reid / from the two rebels (1969) -- Walter Macken / from flight of the doves (1968) -- Patricia Lynch / from the old black sea chest (1958) -- Eilis Dillon / from the island of Horses (1956) -- Conor O'Brien / from the runaways (1941).

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Kirkus Book Review

Dunbar has put together 17 excerpts of Irish writings in reverse chronological order of publication, from 1941Ž96, aimed less at children than at adults studying children's literature. An introductory essay puts forth Dunbar's wish that children ten to twelve try out these samples, but the age group that would find Marita Conlon-McKenna's Fields of Home (1997) a compelling novel will find the four-page excerpt included here dull and unrevealing. The excerpt from Tom McCaughren's In Search of the Liberty Tree (1994) shows several characters involved in an encounter with British soldiers, but the stage is hardly set when a boy and his father are taken from their house; the last paragraph explains that the boy's mother is one of many women who is seeking her husband and son, leaving readers in a lurch. There are also pieces from works by Martin Wadell, Sam McBratney, and other writers who will be familiar to better readers, but the writing style becomes more dated as the stories increase in age. Brief biographies will steer interested readers to other examples of the contributors' works. (Anthology. 12+)
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