{"id":29577,"date":"2015-07-11T19:10:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T07:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29577"},"modified":"2015-07-11T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T07:10:15","slug":"a-teaspoonful-of-magic-the-tyger-voyage-by-richard-adams-nicola-bayley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/07\/11\/a-teaspoonful-of-magic-the-tyger-voyage-by-richard-adams-nicola-bayley\/","title":{"rendered":"A Teaspoonful Of Magic … “The Tyger Voyage” by Richard Adams & Nicola Bayley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tyger<\/a>Today, owing to circumstances serendipitous, I reacquired a copy of Richard Adams’ The Tyger Voyage<\/em><\/strong>, with the wonderful and evocative illustrations by Nicola Bayley.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the backcover says:<\/p>\n

“A gentleman tyger and his son set sail from Victorian England into the timeless unknown.
\n<\/span>Together they roam across the seas, through jungles, past ice-covered mountains and erupting volcanoes and many more unexpected hazards along the way.<\/span>“<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I have always thought The Tyger Voyage<\/em><\/strong> a magical picture book for children, not only because of the illustrations, but because of the adventurous story within, told entirely in rhyme:
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

“My father’s got some curious friends —<\/span><\/p>\n

…<\/span><\/p>\n

He takes a friendly interest<\/span>
\n…..<\/span>in neighbouring bird and local beast.
\n<\/span>The Dubbs live just across the way.<\/span>
\n…..<\/span>(The Dubbs are tygers, I may say.)”<\/span><\/p>\n

The milieu of the book is Victorian, and Adams has managed to capture that flavour while keeping the story accessible for contemporary readers. In short, The Tyger Voyage<\/em><\/strong> really is wonderful storytelling.<\/p>\n

And because I love great storytelling in all its forms, as well as the magic of the physical book, I was very sad—oh, quite some years ago now—when my copy was unfortunately destroyed and I was unable to acquire another.<\/p>\n

So I was delighted today, to learn—quite unexpectedly—that it had been reprinted. No doubt I should have discovered that fact eventually, anyway—but here’s where the serendipity comes in. I had been to a meeting, then got as far as my car and realised I had left my diary behind. So I went back, but chose—on impulse—to walk another way, and so saw a special display of children’s picture books that I would not otherwise have encountered. And one of them was The Tyger Voyage<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Of course, I bought it straight away, even before I had retrieved my diary. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I am looking forward to sneaking in a peek at its delights, in between discharging copyediting duties for my own book.<\/p>\n

If you get the chance, I hope you will take the opportunity to enjoy reading this wonderful story — or better still, make the chance!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, here’s the cover again, this time ’embigenated.<\/p>\n

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Today, owing to circumstances serendipitous, I reacquired a copy of Richard Adams’ The Tyger Voyage, with the wonderful and evocative illustrations by Nicola Bayley. Here’s what the backcover says: “A gentleman tyger and his son set sail from Victorian England into the timeless unknown. Together they roam across the seas, through jungles, past ice-covered mountains […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justarrived","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29577"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29589,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29577\/revisions\/29589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}