The Seventh Raven: A Young Adult Verse Novel―A Grimms' Tale of Siblings and Transformation - Hardcover

Elliott, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0358252113 ISBN 13: 9780358252115

Verlag: Clarion Books, 2021

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Best-selling author David Elliott examines the timeless themes of balance, transformation, and restoration in this evocative tale about a girl who will stop at nothing to reverse a curse that turned her seven brothers into ravens. 

And these are the sons
Of good Jack and good Jane
The eldest is Jack
And the next one is Jack
And the third one’s called Jack
And the fourth’s known as Jack
And the fifth says he’s Jack
And they call the sixth Jack
But the seventh’s not Jack
The seventh is Robyn
 
And this is his story

When Robyn and his brothers are turned into ravens through the work of an unlucky curse, a sister is their only hope to become human again. Though she’s never met her brothers, April will stop at nothing to restore their humanity. But what about Robyn, who always felt a greater affinity to the air than to the earth-bound lives of his family?

David Elliott’s latest novel in verse explores the unintended consequences of our actions, no matter our intentions, and is filled with powerful messages teased from a Grimms’ fairy tale. Stunning black-and-white illustrations throughout by Rovina Cai. 

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David Elliott is the award-winning author of more than twenty-five books for young people, including the picture books On the Farm and the New York Times bestselling And Here’s to You! He is the author of the critically acclaimed verse novels Bull, which received six starred reviews, and Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, which was shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award and is the recipient of the Claudia Lewis Award for poetry. A native of Ohio, David now lives (and writes) in New Hampshire with his wife and their Dandie Dinmont terrier, Quiggy. Learn more about David by visiting davidelliottbooks.com.

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Robyn

They called me Robyn. How did they know from the very start
that the murmuring beat of my infant heart
would not conform to the rhythms of my brothers'?
One no different from the other,
and insensible to the smart

sting of thorns on the rocky ground. Each of us, it seems, has his part
to play; theirs is earthbound, like our father's, their feet planted in the dirt.
But I love the sky, its incandescence, its infinity, its colors.
And they called me Robyn.

The naming of children is a fine and subtle art.
Parents must consider everything the name imparts.
Was it merely accident or the instinct of a mother
that mine hints at altitude and air, flight and feather?
Whether luck or Fate'Fortune's sly, unyielding counterpart"
they called me Robyn.

AND here is the man
Who lives in the cottage
That's built near the river
That runs through the forest
He calls himself Jack

And here is Jack's axe
With its bright-sharpened tongue
And its bright-sharpened will
And its head-banging anger
Its terrible temper
Its loathing of rest

And this is Jack's saw
With its sharp crooked teeth
And its lunatic grin
And its sickening song
And insatiable greed
And its obsessive need

      To go forth
and come back
      To go forth
and come back
      To go forth
and come back
      To go forth
and come back

AND day after day after day after day
Jack swings the sharp axe
And pulls the sharp saw
And curls the tongues
And tramples the eyes
And deafens the ears
And brings the trees down
He wants to know why
He has seven sons
When night after night after night after night
He falls on his knees
And clasps the scarred hands
That hold the dark beads
And bows the big head
That holds the dark eyes
And shuts out the noise
Of his sons in their sleep

And prays for a daughter

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Clarion Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0358252113
• ISBN 13: 9780358252115
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Cai Rovina
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: HarperCollins Publishers, Product Safety Manager; enquiries@harpercollins.ie; ; HarperCollins, Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper; Dublin 1; D01 C9W8; Irland