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What is the Truth?

Collected Animal Poems Vol 2
By Ted Hughes
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What is the Truth? by Ted Hughes is a children's book that explores the themes of nature and truth through a series of poems and narratives. The story unfolds in an enchanting rural landscape where animals and humans interact in a quest for understanding. It invites readers into a world rich with imagination, exploring deeper meanings behind everyday encounters in the natural world.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy children's literature that blends poetry with imaginative storytelling. Ted Hughes' work often combines poetic language with engaging tales that captivate young readers, encouraging a love for nature and wonder through charming narratives and vivid imagery.

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What is the Truth?

In celebration of our 90th birthday, five beautiful hardback editions of some of Ted Hughes's most popular nature poems - to collect, savour and look at the world anew!

In celebration of our 90th birthday, five beautiful hardback editions of some of Ted Hughes's most popular nature poems - to collect, savour and look at the world anew!

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Why is it
The roustabout Rooster, raging at the dawn
Wakes us so early?

A warrior king is on fire!
His armour is all crooked daggers and scimitars
And it's shivering red-hot - with rage!

First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains 'a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment' (The School Librarian).

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571349401

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 January 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 9.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 197g

Pages: 128

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Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Ted Hughes

About the Author

TED HUGHES is widely considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was born in Yorkshire in 1930, and was Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998. Hughes co-founded the Children's Laureateship with Michael Morpurgo. In 1974 Hughes was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. In 1977 he was awarded an OBE for services to Literature, and was awarded the OM in 1998.

Lisa Flather won the Mother Goose Award for Illustration for Where the Great Bear Watches and is the illustrator of What is the Truth?.

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