Spirited Away, Tom Dawe
Spirited Away, Tom Dawe
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Spirited Away
Fairy stories of old Newfoundland

Author: Tom Dawe

Narrator: Tom Dawe, Christina Smith

Unabridged: 1 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 09/30/2022


Synopsis

A young school teacher learns about strange lights in a foreboding marsh; a nurse in a remote outport visits the baby she delivered weeks before to find a devastating change; a woman meets a mysterious funeral procession late one evening; a musician falls thrall to a group of strange little people and can’t stop playing. The stories in Spirited Away are populated by the fairy-led, by changelings, by people who stray onto fairy turf and experience unnerving events. These literary renderings of stories and anecdotes that author Tom Dawe has collected from across Newfoundland offer an accessible and engaging introduction to one of the Newfoundland and Labrador’s most powerful and peculiar folk traditions. Recipient of a 2018 Aesop Accolade from the Children’s Division of the American Society of Folklore

Reviews

Goodreads review by Derek on February 26, 2019

A man who makes his shoe-laces out of dried eel skins, another who can make an instrument of any object he finds, an old woman who goes from house to house asking for bones, children who fear dragonflies – and these are just the human characters in Tom Dawe’s Spirited Away: Fairy Stories of Old Newf......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on July 05, 2018

Lovely stories and wonderful artwork.......more

Goodreads review by Tina on November 22, 2022

This collection of paint and fairy stories from Newfoundland will give you a familiar and delicious shiver. Dark, funky, and perfect woodcuts be Vaselina Tomova illustrate.......more