The Hedgehog: A Story
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A story to delight the most discerning child, The Hedgehog will also charm and impress adult readers. H.D. enthusiasts in particular will find much to think about in this neglected small classic. With its belated reappearance--only three hundred copies were originally printed in England some fifty years ago--comes the joy of a book true to the real shape and feel of things in childhood. The tale concerns a fatherless Anglo-American child, Madge, living with her mother in Switzerland, safe from the approach of WWII but not from growing up. From her first concerns--desires to walk barefoot, to climb the sheerest goat paths up mountainsides, and to learn (without letting on to her ignorance) about mysterious herissons (hedgehogs)--Madge moves to the edge of more adult woes. The great pleasure of The Hedgehog stems from H.D.'s quicksilver creation of a child's world.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0811210693
ISBN13:9780811210690
Release Date:September 1988
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:77 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 7.6" x 8.8"
Age Range:3 years and up
Grade Range:Preschool and higher
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