The Witch and the Grinnygog

Paperback version of Dorothy Edwards' superb venture into the invention of a world of mystery which won her the runner-up award for the Whitbread prize in 1981. Award or no award, this is an amazingly good book, imaginatively constructed and written and much originality; if it hasn't already been added to home or school library, get this paperback edition at once. The forms that Dorothy Edwards utilises to tell the story, from diary, through anecdote, to reportage and narrative, transcend so much of the tired writing that passes for style in children's literature, and raise the book onto a higher plane, one surely worthy of study. Thoroughly recommended.