Rats' Tales

by Carol Ann Duffy, Melly Still (Adapted by)

Overview

Rats' Tales brings together a hugely entertaining, dark and magical cycle of folk tales from around the world.
The volume contains two texts for each story: Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's wonderful prose and Melly Still's lively dramatization.
Rats' Tales celebrates the power of storytelling and will be published to coincide with the premiere at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, in November 2012.
On Beasts and Beauties, on which Carol Ann Duffy and Melly Still also collaborated:
'The first night audience did not exit from the theatre, they hover-crafted out of it on a balloon of bliss.' Independent

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571299058
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	12/13/2012
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	245 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Carol Ann Duffy and Melly Still
Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her Collected Poems was published in 2015. She is Poet Laureate.
Rats' Tales is the latest of many collaborations with Carol Ann Duffy.