Bücher von Ruth Finnegan

Can you solve Holly's puzzle? A vibrantly illustrated and enchanting book for 5 to 8 year olds. Kris and Kate continue their adventures - in and out of the sea, on an enchanted island, on the trees, in storms and in dead calms. And their adorable dog Holly is there too (helping or endangering?) - interested only in finding her bone again.But - would they all get home in time for tea? And where oh where is Holly's bone?

Another magical adventure by Kris and Kate and their accident- prone but adorable did Holly. Their initially delightful voyage ends in a fearsome wreck on an unknown island, their ship shattered into a million fragments, They barely escape with their lives, Holly nearly nit making it at all.Unexpectedly helped by birds, they make their way to the king of the island. To Kate he reveals much of the great wisdom of birds, who eventually help them rebuild their ship and sail safe home, having learned much on the way.

The enchanted Pearl-AwayKris and Kate's next adventures, and where they sail to in their magical ship the Pearl-Away with their accident-prone but delightful dog Holly. They struggle with fierce storms and windless calms, visit magical lands above, below and beyond the trees and forest fires, and learn much wisdom before getting home in time for tea with their mum (pancakes, of course!).Join Kate to see her meet yet more impossible challenges. How can she get to the other side of a flaming forest, swim when she cannot swim, rescue Holly leap across treetops, venture into the clouds? An enchanting book for improving readers that they can hear read aloud chapter by chapter, or read for themselves, formulated for easy access into self contained but linked stories. Meet Elik the mysterious "other" and his mischievous young leopard, the wilful but friendly SeaWitch, twisty S-Snake, flying swallows, and the ever-imaginative Wise-Owl ( or was she really Kate 's inner insight?)Whatever the process, young readers will be drawn into this imaginative enchanted world and both love and learn from the experience, An illustrated chapter book in the Kate~Pearl by the prize-winning author Ruth Finnegan

Kris and Kate's next adventure. Out to the deep deep sea(Ruth Finnegan and Abby Smith)Adventure, away, and what next we sayFor Kris and for Kate and for dog Hollee?They go on the ocean and sail right away.Come listen, come look, and come sail with me!"A fantastic picture book of colour, friendship, adventure - and a delightfully wilful dog for 3-8 year olds

Pearl in the deep wood. The voice of the living trees. Ruth Finnegan. In this, the fifth, volume of the ever recycling Kate-Pearl love story, the voices are those of the trees. They speak both collectively and separately - the beech, the cherry, the cedar, the oak and many many more. In this volume, Kate again tries to redeem her fatal mistake in rejecting "him". She painfully climbs tree after tree to find him. But again and again and again, he is not there. When at last she sees him near the top of the highest tree, she reaches up to him but he then lets her hand slip from his and, abandoning her, continues into heaven on his own. Kate fall agonisingly to the ground and lies there in despair.In heaven he realises what he has done and against all advice goes back to try to find Kate Going down is even harder than up. He has to circle the earth, inch by inch lower in each tree that he clambers down, before he finally finds her and persuades her to climb again. She clambers up a tree near him but is too frightened to jump across to him. Only when he risks falling himself by cutting off the very branch he is clinging to, does she finally dare to jump and they at last enter heaven together. Originating in dreams, the expression is permeated with poetic and literary echoes, recalling the sonic styles of writers like Yeats, Joyce or Hopkins. A unique and enchanting work that immerses the reader in a mystic mythic world.

On a stormy Irish strand, Kate runs in panic from from her would-be lover's kiss ( "I am too young!"). Years later she hears a terrifying African story about a girl leaping into a fire to save her beloved from death, and realises she had rejected the one man she deeply loved and must seek him through heaven and earth or die in the attempt.She is accompanied in her search - sometimes helped, sometimes threateningly challenged - by the multiple flickering flames of Fire that surround her. She knows her love is on the other side of a hotly burning forest fire but whatever route she tries - around the forest, up through the stars, swimming through the ocean that circles the earth and the hidden archive in its bottomless depths - she cannot reach him, Finally, having at last sufficiently tested her love, The Flames direct her to go on a terrifying route down down down through the countless aeons of geologic time to the deep, hidden, fire that energises the earth, and that is at the same time the central spark of her own being. There she finds Vulcan and his smiths working with molten iron on their red-hot anvil. There too is the eternally scorching fire into which she must plunge to find Him.Fire Pearl is the fourth volume in the literary, poetic-prose, Kate-Pearl epic series: The Black Inked Pearl, The Helix Pearl (as told by the wine-dark garrulous sea), Pearl of the Wind (in preparation), and the fairytale prequel The Fijian Pearl; two more volumes are planned (coming, like the others, in dreams) but not yet written. All tell basically the same mythic tale but from different perspectives.A mythical story of two lovers whose connection transcends space and time [that] weaves together biblical allusions, fantasy, and details of the modern day (KIRKUS Review of "The Black Inked Pearl" )

The enduring collection of beautiful and uplifting poems for the garden - and the home. A treasure! and the perfect gift for gardeners and non -gardeners alike. Classy hardback, the perfect giftCallender poetry

A companion story to Ruth Finnegan's multi-award inspirational novel 'Black Inked Pearl', this time, unusually, told from the perspective of the ever-sounding sea A volume in the unique 'Kate-Pearl' series

What is the role of sound in human like?and of music? What do we use it for and ow does it vary across the world? Where does it come from and above all why should we - as we do - care about it? This series of reflections by the celebrated anthropologist Ruth Finnegan tackles these questions and more in her inimitable friendly and accessible style. An Informative and inspiring book, unique.

Kris et Kate construisent un bateau dans le sable et leur chien Holly gambade autour d'eux. Ils s'aventurent dans une crique, sous le regard de leur me¿re reste¿e sur le rivage.Un doux conte magique admirablement illustre¿ qui incite ä la de¿couverte de l'histoire naturelle.Traduit de l'anglais par Gwendolyne Thio et Jocelyne Chalumeau-Thio

Once upon a time in the long long ago there were two children. One was poor. One was rich. One was very good at sums. The other one was not. But they liked each other a lot. And all the time they were playing together... A fairytale retold by Ruth Finnegan, illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes.

Kris and Kate build a boat in the sand, then, dreamlike, it becomes a rowing boat. Their dog Holly frisks round them.They venture out into a sea inlet, watched by their mother from the shore. Kate, assuming that girls take the energetic lead, insists on rowing, Kris dreams with fish. After all that excitement they they get hungry and eventually, with Holly, fall asleep! With their mother alarmed on the shore, the boat drifts out to sea. But the birds and the fish that Kris had befriended rally round and pull them back to shore.Their mother lifts them out, still asleep and, Holly beside them, their mother kisses them goodnight as they dream of their next adventure

It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This is not wrong; all cultures rightly learn from each other. But less is said of what there is to learn from Africa: from her stories, myths, music, proverbs, insights - and more. Here an acclaimed African scholar steps into the gap by uncovering for us something of the great legacy of African thought and practice in ways that will astonish many. Written with verve and authority and directed above all to students and sixth formers, this book will also delight and often surprise those who know something of Africa as well as those hitherto ignorant.Ruth Finnegan OBE FBA is Emeritus Professor The Open University, Foreign Associate of the Finnish Literature Bureau, and International Fellow of the American Folklore Society. An anthropologist and multi-award author, she has published extensively, chiefly on Africa, musical practice, and English urban life. Recent books include How is Language?, Fiji's Music: Where Did It Come From?, her edited Entrancement: The Consciousness of Dreaming, Music and The World, and two prize-winning Africa-influenced novels Black Inked Pearl and Voyage of Pearl of the Seas.

The Limba are rice farmers living in the hills of northern Sierra Leone who have, until recently, been somewhat despised by their neighbours. Yet they possess a subtle and fascinating literature, as illustrated by this detailed study of their stories, collected and translated by Dr. Finnegan. Their literary and artistic value emerges clearly when the significance of their 'oral' character is realized. The introductory chapters full consider such points as the importance of the actual delivery, the part played by the story-teller, and the changing forms arising from the originality of individual narrators. The book throws light on the general study of oral composition and performance as well as on the literary spirit of a previously unstudied West African people. Ruth Finnegan OBE, FBA, Emeritus Professor Open University. Her work has mainly been on oral performance, narrative, the ethnography of music, and communicating (including extra-sensory perception). Her publications include Oral Literature in Africa, The Hidden Musicians, Communicating: the Multiple Modes of Human Communication, Why Do We Quote? and, most recently, the novels Black Inked Pearl, Voyage of Pearl of the Seas, and The Helix Pearl. Born in Ireland, she now lives in Old Bletchley, southern England.

This classic study is an introduction to ""oral poetry,"" a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia or the Pacific. The book employs a broad comparative perspective and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia, and Oceania as well as Europe and America. The results of Finnegan's vast research illuminate and suggest fresh conclusions to many current controversies: the nature of oral tradition and oral composition; the notion of a special oral style; possible connection between types of poetry and types of society; the differences between oral and written communication; and the role of poets in non-literate societies. Drawing on insights from anthropology and literary scholarship, Oral Poetry attempts to create a greater appreciation of the literary aspects of this fascinating form of poetry. Finnegan quotes extensively from a wide variety of sources, mainly in translation. The discussion is presented in non-technical language and will be of interest not only to sociologists and social anthropologists, but also to all those interested in comparative literature and in folk poetry from cultures around the world. The re-issue of this text, widely used in folklore, anthropology, and comparative literature courses, comes at an appropriate juncture in interdisciplinary scholarship, which is witnessing the breakdown of traditional disciplinary boundaries and an increase in the comparative study of oral poetry. For this volume Ruth Finnegan has provided a new foreword relating the text to more recent developments.Ruth Finnegan OBE, FBA, Emeritus Professor Open University. Her work has mainly been on oral performance, narrative, the ethnography of music, and communicating (including extra-sensory perception). Her publications include Oral Literature in Africa, The Hidden Musicians, Communicating: the Multiple Modes of Human Communication, Why Do We Quote? and, most recently, the novels Black Inked Pearl, Voyage of Pearl of the Seas, and The Helix Pearl. Born in Ireland, she now lives in Old Bletchley, southern England.