Shadows & Moonshine
Stories
by Joan Aiken
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For middle readers, Joan Aiken's collection, illustrated by Pamela Johnson, is full of stories that are reminiscent of fairy tales.
Editions of Shadows & Moonshine
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher David R Godine Pub |
Date 2001 |
Price $5.39 |
 Good |
Publisher Notes
Royals, witches, enchanted pigs, mermaids, wolves, and mortals star in thirteen stories gleaned from a trio of the author's earlier collections.
Media Reviews
"[S]uch bountiful inventiveness can be a mixed blessing, as Joyce Carol Oates or Phyllis Reynolds Naylor can probably testify: Naive readers may dismiss the resulting work as facile, shallow or the product of automatic writing rather than painstaking craft. In truth, Aiken's short stories occasionally suffer from rather wan endings, but her limpid style, flair for dialect, subdued (or slapstick) humor and, most of all, her comforting voice make up for this weakness. If weakness it is."
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