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The Wild Swans

Jackie Morris

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Hardback

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English
Unbound
01 January 2023
Age range 11 to 14

A girl loses her beloved brothers when they are turned into swans by her wicked stepmother. She embarks on a vital quest with one purpose: to find them and turn them back into boys again. But the task is complicated. She must pick nettles with her bare hands and turn them to yarn, to spin and knit into shirts for each of the eleven brothers. And all the while she cannot speak, for if she does, even so much as a whisper, it will be like a knife in the heart of each swan-boy. And so she knits in silence. And where there is silence, people will put words.

The Wild Swans is a beautiful and lyrical extended version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen in Jackie Morris's enchanting retelling, complete with delicate watercolour paintings throughout this new edition. A story about love and bravery, about how to listen, and about how, when we do not listen, we hear what we wish to hear. 'Beautiful, lyrical, and lovely'.

'Jackie Morris does more than tell a story; she conjures glorious landscapes of the heart.' - Joanne Harris
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Imprint:   Unbound
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 176mm,  Width: 141mm, 
ISBN:   9781783528882
ISBN 10:   1783528885
Pages:   384
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 11 to 14 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language ,  English as a second language
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She studied illustration at Hereford College of Art and Bath Academy and has illustrated many books, and written some. The Lost Words, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane, won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019. She lives in Pembrokeshire. @JackieMorrisArt

Reviews for The Wild Swans

"""Jackie Morris's The Wild Swans is a dreamy retold fairy tale that's full of hope, beauty, and love."" -- Foreword ""Beautiful, lyrical and lovely."" -- Joanne Harris ""A quiet masterpiece . . . a love story, a hope story, a story out of time, out of stricture, out of the narrow artificial bounds by which we try to contain the wild wonderland of reality because we are too frightened to live wonder-stricken."" -- Maria Popova, Brain Pickings ""The tales feel like half-remembered dreams, peopled with fairytale characters and magnificent creatures."" -- Rebecca Armstrong, i Paper Best Books of 2020"


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