A stunning, new, limited edition version of a much-loved children's classic.
Reckoned one of the greatest of modern fairy tales.
Hughes has never written more compellingly.
Ted Hughes was born in Yorkshire in 1930. His first book,
The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Faber and Faber in 1957, and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for both children and adults, including
How The Whale Became,
Under the North Star,
Tales from Ovid and
Birthday Letters. He was Poet Laureate from 1984 and was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998, the year in which he died.