Stories in the Dark

By: Oswald, Debra

A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war-torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears.

Into his life steps Anna - older, street smart and scornful of his crying. As a way of shutting the boy up, she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood. And so begins a journey into the shifting, shimmering world of ogres, princes, singing bones, foolish lads and wolf-mothers.

Stories in the Dark explores the power of storytelling, mingling the magic and earthy wisdom of folk tales with the hard-edged story of violence, conflict and the struggle to survive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0868198315
• ISBN13: 9780868198316
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Currency Press
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.3"