THE HALLOWEEN TREE .
Bradbury, Ray
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Octavo, illustrations by Joseph Mugnaini, cloth. First edition, trade binding. Cloth soiled, a very good copy in very good dust jacket with clipped price. (172726). Seller Inventory # 172726
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE HALLOWEEN TREE .
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Joseph Mugnaini
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
Bradbury's stories about children are always attended by dread--of change, adulthood, death. The Halloween Tree, while sweeter than his adult literature, is also touched at moments by the cold specter of loss--which is only fitting, of course, for a holiday in honor of the waning of the sun.
This is a superb book for adults to read to children, a way to teach them, quite painlessly, about customs and imagery related to Halloween from ancient Egypt, Mediterranean cultures, Celtic Druidism, Mexico, and even a cathedral in Paris. (One caveat, though: Bradbury unfortunately perpetuates a couple of misconceptions about Samhain, or summer's end, the Halloween of ancient Celts and contemporary pagans.) This beautiful reprint edition has the original black-and-white illustrations and a new color painting on the dust jacket. --Fiona Webster
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