Song For A Summer Night
Publisher: Anubis
Published: 2016
Place of publication: U.S.A.
Format: Ebook
ISBN-13: 9780997737981
Copyright date: 2016
Description: Song For A Summer Night is a "children's tale" in the classic tradition, in which a boy -- twelve-year-old Peter Phye -- on the verge of manhood, or at least what most civilized cultures now call adolescence, is granted the power to converse with animals and nature for a short time and embarks upon a difficult and sometimes dangerous quest. Peter's mission for the Queen Of The Night is to bring back the songs of nature, which have mysteriously disappeared. The setting is also classic, a rural environment of shadowy woods, sunny meadows, leafy glades, a pond, a graveyard, and a field with an old abandoned car, all vividly described; the heat of mid-July afternoons, the coolness of mornings and late at night, the clinging damp of a sweaty T-shirt, the rasp of stickers (or "pickers") on bare arms and legs, the sting of mosquito bites, and the razor rake of cat claws. There are villains and friends, human, animal, insect and supernatural; hip-hop blue jays, a gangster raccoon, and devious, drunken bugaboos. Peter has real-world problems, too; an alcoholic mother and a workaholic dad. Song For A Summer Night will also appeal to adults who haven't forgotten the trials, fears, both real and imaginary, and the innocent pleasures of being a kid and living in the moment.