The Stone Book Quartet

By Alan Garner

Book Overview

A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain's greatest children's novelists Four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that is now disappeared. Craftsmen pass on, or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044040049X
• ISBN13: 9780440400493
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A well crafted read . . .

Alan Garner's quartet of novellas follows a working class family through four generations in Cheshire, (northern England). The stories are written in regional dialect, however, they are very accesible and enjoyable. Garner is, primarily, a writer of children's literature and it is perhaps, therefore, no surprise that his stories focus on the child characters in each generation. A little serious and quaint, however, the stories are engaging and intensely well crafted.