Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into being. They are collected here in one volume for the first time.These are richly told tales of sparkling intensity about animals finding their form, and Gods struggle to understand what he has created. Meet the Polar Bear whose obsession with her snowy white fur is so great that she can only live in a landscape surrounded by her own reflection the Whale, growing in Gods garden beside the carrots King Leo, who began life because God was hungry for his sausages poor Parrots painful defeat in the marriage song contest at the wedding of Man and Woman and Sparrows heroic battle against the birdswallowing Black Hole.There are stories here to suit children from four to fourteen, whether for reading aloud or alone.

Binding: Paperback;336 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: YFP; Weight: 566 g; Dimensions: 225 x 162 x 25

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