A book from my childhood but a book for all times and ages. Its epigraph is from Tippett's Child of Our Time,
Here is no final grieving, but an abiding hope.
The moving waters renew the earth. It is spring.
Much to my delight I have located my ancient Puffin paperback copy this morning, priced both in old and in decimal currency so my guess is I first read this in 1970 or 71. I do know it is a book I returned to numerous times for its sense of dignity and warmth. I discover from the battered old pages that the illustrations are by C.Walter Hodges, the author of another chidhood favourite, The Overland Launch.
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