- Hardcover
- Publisher: Macmillan & Co (Jun 1940)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0848801733
- ISBN-13: 978-0848801731
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,449,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Enchanted by the theatre, Dan and Una decide to recreate their own version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Finding the perfect spot, an old fairy ring, they set about their play, and are so enchanted that they perform it three times in a row. After a final bow, they sit down in the centre of the fairy ring - whereupon, the bushes part and Puck enters, stage left. Using his fairy magic, Puck then conjures up the past to entertain the two amazed children - a Roman centurion, a Renaissance artisan and a bygone village all appear before their very eyes. Puck of Pook's Hill is an innocent and charming tale to delight readers of all ages. AUTHBIO: Born in Bombay in 1865, Rudyard Kipling retained a deep love for the colour and exotic richness of India throughout his life and this passion affected much of his writing. Best known for his masterpieces The Jungle Books, Kim, and Captains Courageous, Kipling also penned an extraordinary number of powerful and evocative poems and short stories including the remarkable Just So Stories. The first Englishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Kipling commands a place amongst the finest of English writers.
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Pure magic,
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This review is from: Puck of Pook's Hill (Penguin Popular Classics) (Paperback)
I still read this book at the age of fifty-four with as much delight as when I was given it aged about 9 or 10 by my dancing teacher. Puck is not the gossamer-winged soppy type of fairy (in fact, he reprimands Dan & Una roundly for using the word!) He is 'the oldest "Old Thing" left in Britain, and by means of Oak, Ash & Thorn he transports the children to meet various characters who, like Puck, have left their mark on the country.
It must be the most painless way ever to learn history and enjoy tales told as only a master can tell them. Buy the book - in fact, buy two copies, one for the ten-year-old & one for yourself!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Puck's Pageant,
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This review is from: Puck of Pook's Hill (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Paperback)
"Puck of Pook's Hill" is something of a curiosity. The theme of the book is England and what made her, as related by characters who are conjured-up by Puck to give what would be called "eye-witness accounts" today. These characters include a knight, a Roman centurion and a Jewish physician from the time of the Magna Carta. There is a lovely feeling of place about the book - and in particular the timelessness of place, with many of the stories set around the Downs and the Weald of Kent, where Kipling lived.
I do have to say, unfortunately, that I doubt that this book would offer much of relevance to children today. With the changes in the way children are taught history, from the "living history" actors that pop out at each tourist attraction to tell their tales to CG films portraying famous historical incidents, learning about history has left the dusty books that the children in this story had to learn from far behind. And I expect that Una and Dan would now be seen as "historic" as many of the other characters that appear in the story. But, although I would hesitate giving this to my son to read, I did enjoy losing myself in "Old England" for a while.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Face to face with English gods, ghosts and history,
By Sarakani (Harrow United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Puck of Pook's Hill (Dodo Press) (Paperback)
Kipling's prose has a very special quality - quintissentially English, proud and very robust.
I asked a scholar of English and a Buddhist meditation teacher to recommend a good book for me and she thought briefly before mentioning this. The poems in it are sometimes dated - the one about queen and country but this is a warm and pleasant read containing many important and esoteric aspects that few care to appreciate. Ideal to communicate something about being a whole human being and this earthy realm with some of its hidden and ancient forces.
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