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The book is narrated from rapidly alternating perspectives: the Dad, the Boys, and Crow—a human-sized bird that can speak, "equal parts babysitter, philosopher and therapist" to the family. [5] [6] The title refers to a poem by Emily Dickinson, ""Hope" is the thing with feathers". [7] Crow is the Crow from Ted Hughes' 1970 poetry book. [8]
Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles is a trilogy of young adult fantasy novels written by Canadian playwright and screenwriter Clem Martini. All of the main characters are crows , which are not so much anthropomorphic as simply animals of human intelligence who have their own culture, religion, and folktales based on Native American mythology.
Holly Webb (born 1976 in London) [1] is a British children's writer. [2] She studied Classics at Newnham College at Cambridge University, Byzantine and Medieval Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and then worked as an editor until 2005. [3]
It draws heavily upon Hughes's Crow: From the Life and Songs of Crow and its title is derived from Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the thing with feathers". In 2016, Grief won the Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, [18] the Books Are My Bag Readers' Award for fiction, [19] the 2016 Dylan Thomas Prize, [20] and the 2017 Europese ...
The book was a Newbery Honor book in 2008. [1] Robin Smith, of Book Page, said that the book filled him with "joy and hope." [3] Norah Piehl, of Kids Reads, reviewed the book saying, "Set against the music, politics and conflicts of the early 1970s, Jacqueline Woodson's exceptional new novel grounds universal ideas in a particular time and place."
Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow is a literary work by poet Ted Hughes, first published in 1970 by Faber & Faber, and one of Hughes' most important works. Writing for the Ted Hughes Society Journal in 2012, Neil Roberts , Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield , said:
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Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 – 22 November 1948) was an English author and Liberal Party Member of Parliament. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers, and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christie's famous Hercule Poirot.