When I first discovered Josephine Poole, it was through Billy Buck (published as The Visitor in the US) and Moon Eyes which I wrote about here and here. Not long after reading those two ‘books for young adults’ I found Yokeham, which I’d read was her ‘first novel for adults’ (it’s not, that was The … Continue reading Entertaining Josephine Poole
First we’ll wait, then we’ll whistle, then we’ll dance together… For three days wind filled the valley, running wild like an animal. It hunted down over the blue meadows, that were striped across and across with long black shadows, as if they had bones humping up under the grass; it entered the woods, making them … Continue reading Appreciating Josephine Poole – Moon Eyes
Stag Boy by William Rayner (1971) Billy Buck by Josephine Poole (1972) The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy by Penelope Lively (1971) The invasion of ancient folklore and myth into the present is a feature of many novels for ‘young adults’ of the late sixties and early seventies. There had been, of course, the Alan Garner … Continue reading Running with the deer – 1971 in children’s literature
WHISTLES IN THE WIND 