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Can you solve Holly's puzzle? A vibrantly illustrated and enchanting book for 5 to 8 year olds. Kris and Kate continue their adventures - in and out of the sea, on an enchanted island, on the trees, in storms and in dead calms. And their adorable dog Holly is there too (helping or endangering?) - interested only in finding her bone again.But - would they all get home in time for tea? And where oh where is Holly's bone?

Another magical adventure by Kris and Kate and their accident- prone but adorable did Holly. Their initially delightful voyage ends in a fearsome wreck on an unknown island, their ship shattered into a million fragments, They barely escape with their lives, Holly nearly nit making it at all.Unexpectedly helped by birds, they make their way to the king of the island. To Kate he reveals much of the great wisdom of birds, who eventually help them rebuild their ship and sail safe home, having learned much on the way.

The enchanted Pearl-AwayKris and Kate's next adventures, and where they sail to in their magical ship the Pearl-Away with their accident-prone but delightful dog Holly. They struggle with fierce storms and windless calms, visit magical lands above, below and beyond the trees and forest fires, and learn much wisdom before getting home in time for tea with their mum (pancakes, of course!).Join Kate to see her meet yet more impossible challenges. How can she get to the other side of a flaming forest, swim when she cannot swim, rescue Holly leap across treetops, venture into the clouds? An enchanting book for improving readers that they can hear read aloud chapter by chapter, or read for themselves, formulated for easy access into self contained but linked stories. Meet Elik the mysterious "other" and his mischievous young leopard, the wilful but friendly SeaWitch, twisty S-Snake, flying swallows, and the ever-imaginative Wise-Owl ( or was she really Kate 's inner insight?)Whatever the process, young readers will be drawn into this imaginative enchanted world and both love and learn from the experience, An illustrated chapter book in the Kate~Pearl by the prize-winning author Ruth Finnegan

Kris and Kate's next adventure. Out to the deep deep sea(Ruth Finnegan and Abby Smith)Adventure, away, and what next we sayFor Kris and for Kate and for dog Hollee?They go on the ocean and sail right away.Come listen, come look, and come sail with me!"A fantastic picture book of colour, friendship, adventure - and a delightfully wilful dog for 3-8 year olds

Pearl in the deep wood. The voice of the living trees. Ruth Finnegan. In this, the fifth, volume of the ever recycling Kate-Pearl love story, the voices are those of the trees. They speak both collectively and separately - the beech, the cherry, the cedar, the oak and many many more. In this volume, Kate again tries to redeem her fatal mistake in rejecting "him". She painfully climbs tree after tree to find him. But again and again and again, he is not there. When at last she sees him near the top of the highest tree, she reaches up to him but he then lets her hand slip from his and, abandoning her, continues into heaven on his own. Kate fall agonisingly to the ground and lies there in despair.In heaven he realises what he has done and against all advice goes back to try to find Kate Going down is even harder than up. He has to circle the earth, inch by inch lower in each tree that he clambers down, before he finally finds her and persuades her to climb again. She clambers up a tree near him but is too frightened to jump across to him. Only when he risks falling himself by cutting off the very branch he is clinging to, does she finally dare to jump and they at last enter heaven together. Originating in dreams, the expression is permeated with poetic and literary echoes, recalling the sonic styles of writers like Yeats, Joyce or Hopkins. A unique and enchanting work that immerses the reader in a mystic mythic world.

On a stormy Irish strand, Kate runs in panic from from her would-be lover's kiss ( "I am too young!"). Years later she hears a terrifying African story about a girl leaping into a fire to save her beloved from death, and realises she had rejected the one man she deeply loved and must seek him through heaven and earth or die in the attempt.She is accompanied in her search - sometimes helped, sometimes threateningly challenged - by the multiple flickering flames of Fire that surround her. She knows her love is on the other side of a hotly burning forest fire but whatever route she tries - around the forest, up through the stars, swimming through the ocean that circles the earth and the hidden archive in its bottomless depths - she cannot reach him, Finally, having at last sufficiently tested her love, The Flames direct her to go on a terrifying route down down down through the countless aeons of geologic time to the deep, hidden, fire that energises the earth, and that is at the same time the central spark of her own being. There she finds Vulcan and his smiths working with molten iron on their red-hot anvil. There too is the eternally scorching fire into which she must plunge to find Him.Fire Pearl is the fourth volume in the literary, poetic-prose, Kate-Pearl epic series: The Black Inked Pearl, The Helix Pearl (as told by the wine-dark garrulous sea), Pearl of the Wind (in preparation), and the fairytale prequel The Fijian Pearl; two more volumes are planned (coming, like the others, in dreams) but not yet written. All tell basically the same mythic tale but from different perspectives.A mythical story of two lovers whose connection transcends space and time [that] weaves together biblical allusions, fantasy, and details of the modern day (KIRKUS Review of "The Black Inked Pearl" )

The enduring collection of beautiful and uplifting poems for the garden - and the home. A treasure! and the perfect gift for gardeners and non -gardeners alike. Classy hardback, the perfect gift Callender poetry

An award-winning unput-downable tale of two children building a boat from a log they find buried in the sand and sailing off to far-off fantastic lands in a stormy sea-driven adventure with their faithful - but accident-prone - dog Holly. There they learn much wisdom from a king who, like God, has many names. After an incredible sacrifice of his dearest dream by the boy (now growing up) they return - another dream - to a family tea with their loved ones. The tale is a prequel and companion to Ruth Finnegans award-winning epic romance Black inked pearl, here adapted for preteens but characterised by (in a simpler form) the same unique dream-like and enchanted style as in the original novel.

Provides guidance on how to approach the study of oral forms and their performances, treating both the practicalities of fieldwork and the methods by which oral texts and performances can be observed, collected and analyzed.

A companion story to Ruth Finnegan's multi-award inspirational novel 'Black Inked Pearl', this time, unusually, told from the perspective of the ever-sounding sea A volume in the unique 'Kate-Pearl' series