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A wood by moonlight is full of intriguing contrasts, and so is this collection. The title story, laid in Puritan England, tells how the three Sackville children met a cloaked stranger, and what came of it; other historical stories are about different times—an Elizabethan fireplace with a secret of its own, the day Queen Henrietta-Maria decided to go Christmas shopping, the very last Frost Fair on the Thames in 1814—and different places: icy Holland, where young Ralph Selden finds himself mixed up with the mysterious Gentlemen of the Sealed Knot, and sunny Venice, where Angela finds herself looking into the mouth of the lion, in more ways than one.
But there are other kinds of story here, too—a funny one about the day an escaped Colorado beetle caused havoc at Winthwaite Grammar School, an exciting one about a chance discovery in a cave deep in the hills of France, a touching one about a girl and her dog-that-wasn't.
Geoffrey Trease has been writing for children for almost half a century, but this is the first major collection of his short stories to be published; truly twelve of the best by a master-storyteller.
—from the dust jacket
Contents:
- A Wood by Moonlight
- The Colorado Quest
- Gentlemen of the Sealed Knot
- The Hunters of Varaine
- Queen's Christmas
- Flit Wallah
- The Fireside Story
- The Dog
- The Frost Fair
- The Last Mischief
- The Mouth of the Lion
- The Road to Drury Lane
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