Stories in the Dark - Paperback

A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war-torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears. Into his life steps Anna - older, street smart and scornful of his crying. As a way of shutting the boy up, she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood. And so begins a journey into the shifting, shimmering world of ogres, princes, singing bones, foolish lads and wolf-mothers. Stories in the Dark explores the power of storytelling, mingling the magic and earthy wisdom of folk tales with the hard-edged story of violence, conflict and the struggle to survive.

• | Author: Debra Oswald
• | Publisher: Currency Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 74 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0868198315
• | ISBN-13: 9780868198316