The Mermaid's Purse - Softcover

Hughes, Ted

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ISBN 10: 0571196217 ISBN 13: 9780571196210

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1999

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In The Mermaid's Purse, Ted Hughes introduces us to a marvellous array of characters who live in and around the sea, among them a bashful mussel, a boastful limpet, a thieving sandflea and an orphaned seal; and he lets us see just how it feels to be a pebble or a shell or to come face to face with a sea monster. Flora McDonnell, who is a previous winner of the Mother Goose Award, brings her own love of the sea to bear on these pages.

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FABER PBK,1999,ILLUSTRATED

About the Author:

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998). He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

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