Spring Song
Author: first_name: Forrest
last_name: Reid
Language: English
Year: 1916

A deceptive tale, The Spring Song seems at first glance to be standard Edwardian adventure.  Grif - A boy on holiday with his siblings - must set out through the English countryside to rescue their beloved dog.  Slowly, however, a subtle and not always benign magic slips into the tale, imbuing it with a dark haunting that is hard to put one's finger on.  A genius friend takes on the role of boy detective to figure out why Grif has become so melancholy, but in an inversion of the trope its not cl