ISBN: 1886910960

Oscar Wilde was once asked why he wrote stories for children (for example, The Happy Giant). His answer: "I no more write for children than I write for adults. Rather, I write for those w… More...

Oscar Wilde was once asked why he wrote stories for children (for example, The Happy Giant). His answer: "I no more write for children than I write for adults. Rather, I write for those who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness." So, too, writes Samuel Jay Keyser in The Pond God and Other Stories. The stories were inspired by a Navajo shaman who once said that he had seen a god walking across the horizon. Keyser is both humorous and profound as he explores the foibles and insights of the very human "gods" who inhabit his primordial world. The stories include "How Clouds Came to Be," "How a Thief Stole the Horizon," and "How the Sun Tricked a God." Each reader of these 43 parables will bring a different perspective to the stories. Robert Shetterly, acclaimed for his illustration of William Blake's Proverbs of Heaven and Hell, captures and compounds the "subtle strangeness" of Keyser's tales in the simple, evocative line drawings for The Pond God. action and adventure,anthologies,children's books,fairy tales folk tales and myths,geography and cultures,historical fiction,literature and fiction,medieval,multicultural stories,native north and south americans Medieval, Front Street imprint of Boyds Mills Press<

ISBN: 1886910960

Oscar Wilde was once asked why he wrote stories for children (for example, The Happy Giant). His answer: "I no more write for children than I write for adults. Rather, I write for those w… More...

Oscar Wilde was once asked why he wrote stories for children (for example, The Happy Giant). His answer: "I no more write for children than I write for adults. Rather, I write for those who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness." So, too, writes Samuel Jay Keyser in The Pond God and Other Stories. The stories were inspired by a Navajo shaman who once said that he had seen a god walking across the horizon. Keyser is both humorous and profound as he explores the foibles and insights of the very human "gods" who inhabit his primordial world. The stories include "How Clouds Came to Be," "How a Thief Stole the Horizon," and "How the Sun Tricked a God." Each reader of these 43 parables will bring a different perspective to the stories. Robert Shetterly, acclaimed for his illustration of William Blake's Proverbs of Heaven and Hell, captures and compounds the "subtle strangeness" of Keyser's tales in the simple, evocative line drawings for The Pond God. action and adventure,anthologies,children's,children's books,fairy tales folk tales and myths,geography and cultures,historical fiction,literature and fiction,medieval,multicultural stories Medieval, Boyds Mills Press<

2003, ISBN: 9781886910966

Asheville, NC: Front Street (2003), 2003. Octavo, Fine in Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Robert Shetterly. Hardcover., Front Street (2003), 2003, 0

2003, ISBN: 9781886910966

Asheville, NC: Front Street (2003), 2003. Octavo, Fine in Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Robert Shetterly. Hardcover., Front Street (2003), 2003