The Midnight Folk

by John Masefield

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Title	The Midnight Folk
Author Hilder, Rowland	John Masefield
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Tags	own, Box 27, fiction, read, reread, children's lit, illustrated, kidlit, fantasy, interstitial, magical realism, gift
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Your review	I'm being a little silly in characterizing this book as interstitial or magical realism, but it does seem to fit it best. Like Alice in Wonderland, it depicts fluid physical laws. Unlike Alice, it draws no really meaningful lines between the world where the rules apply and that where they do not. The magical happenings that befall Kay Harker partake both of the logic of the dream world and the concerns of the waking one. Kay is a young boy living in his familial country house, but overseen by unrelated and seemingly uncaring adults. He begins to find out the world is stranger than he had thought when he begins to dig into the mystery surrounding his great-grandfather, a sea captain who lost or stole a great treasure. The other characters include cats Blackmalkin and Graymalkin, otters, foxes, witches....
Other authors Hilder, Rowland Illustrator 8 2	Illustrator – Hilder, Rowland
Publication	Reprint Society (1959), Hardcover
Publication date	1959
ISBN	/
LC classification 1	PZ7.M373Mi
Dewey 1	823.912 J 20
Subjects	Adventure stories Buried treasure › Fiction Children's stories England › Fiction Fantasy Toys › Juvenile fiction
Primary language eng	English
Secondary language	(blank)
Original language eng	English
Date acquired	2000-02-18
Date started	1991-01-01
Date finished	1991-01-03
Summary 1	The Midnight Folk by John Masefield (1959)
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BCID	XXX-
Number of copies	1
Citation	Requires valid ISBN.
Data source	amazon.co.uk

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