| The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): Colum, Padraic (Author), Walker, Dugald Stewart (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1406598674 ISBN-13: 9781406598674 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $11.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 6" W x 9" (0.39 lbs) 112 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Padraic Colum (1881-1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival. At the age of seventeen, he passed an exam for and was awarded a clerkship in the Irish Railway Clearing House. He stayed in this job until 1903. During this period, Colum started to write and met a number of the leading Irish writers of the time. His earliest published poems appeared in The United Irishman. His first book, Wild Earth (1907) collected many of these poems. In 1911 he founded the short-lived literary journal The Irish Review. In 1914, Colum travelled to the USA where he took up children's writing and published a number of collections of stories for children, beginning with The King of Ireland's Son (1916). In 1922 he started writing novels. Amongst his other works are Three Plays (1916), The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said (1918), The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths (1920) and The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles (1921). |