By Alan Garner (author)
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From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service .
Stunning new CollinsVoyager edition of Alan Garner's collection of folklore.
Boggarts and gowks, fools and hobgoblins are only some of the strange and wonderful creatures in A Bag of Moonshine - a veritable treasure trove of stories chosen from the folklore of England and Wales.
There are 22 tales in all, beautifully illustrated in black and whitel by prize-winning illustrator Patrick Lynch.
Alan Garner , the son of Colin and Marjorie Garner, was born ("with the cord wrapped twice round my throat") in his grandmother's front room in Congleton, Cheshire on 17th October 1934, and grew up in Alderley Edge, where his father's family have lived for more than three hundred years, being craftsmen in the area. He completed two years' national service in the Royal Artillery as a Second Lieutenant. He began writing his first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, at the age of twenty-two.
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From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service. Stunning new CollinsVoyager edition of Alan Garner's collection of folklore.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed A Bag Of Moonshine and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
A Bag Of Moonshine features in the following genres: Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Traditional Tales, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 9+ readers
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A Bag Of Moonshine was written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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