Ballywhinney Girl
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0547558430 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Poignant tale of a bog girl, beautifully-illustrated and told in verse Z Hayes It begins with a grisly discovery - a grandfather out cutting turf to procure peat for a fire finds a body buried in the bog, preserved over the centuries, and discolored from the years spent underneath the earth. Shocked by his gruesome discovery, he cries,"Maeve! I've found a dead boyburied in the bog.Murdered maybe,hidden here.I'm stupefied, I am!"Young Maeve runs home and eventually the authorities come to take a look, followed closely by archaeologists. "Ballywhinney Girl" according to Wendi. I like Ireland and any book about the Irish I will buy. The book had a nice sensitive feeling. I'm sure children will enjoy it.
It turns out to be the body of a young girl who lived more than athousand years ago. A girl like Maeve, with fair hair, who walked the same fields andpicked the same flowers. Maeve is unnerved when she and her grandfather find a body in the bog in Ballywhinney,Ireland. When archeologists display the mummy at a museum, Maevewonders: Does the girl mind being displayed in a glass case for all to see? Or does shemiss the green meadow where she had lain for so many hundreds of years?Two picture-book masters sensitively capture the layers of thought and feeling