The Glass Tear

Anna Howard

Stunning illustrations by Fran Evans bring to life this delightful and enchanting story about a little girl who loves stories and roaming the seashore.

ISBN: 9781848519725

Price: £6.99

Department: Children, Children's Fiction, KS2 (7-11 yrs)

Format: Paperback

Language: English

No. of pages: 64

Reading age: 7-9

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How many red dragons are there still in Wales? Apparently only one, and it lives in a cave on the Pembrokeshire coast, or so we are led to believe!

Once again an encounter with a dragon is the central theme of a newly-published book by Pont. Told as a tale within the tale this version is narrated both by a modern-day child in person (clearing out the contents of her deceased great aunt Bronwyn's cottage at Nolton Haven, and by Bron herself. She had written in spidery writing on several sheets of thin paper, tied with silver parcel string the story of her own childhood meeting with the lonely dragon, way back in 1928. The glass tear of the title is in fact the single tear shed by the dragon as he sends Bron back from his beach-side cave to the real world of an unbelieving family (after all, parents have no imagination, have they?), who all fail to realise the significance of her treasure. All, that is, except her grandfather, Tad-cu, who confides that he too has a glass tear, given to him as a child by the same dragon. - Chris Stephens, Gwales

Blurb

Stunning illustrations by Fran Evans bring to life this delightful and enchanting story about a little girl who loves stories and roaming the seashore.