The Stolen Child · Dust jacket · spine 9.5 · 221 x 266 · flap 100 · CMYK+Pantone 8323
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild W.B. Yeats’ enchanting poem, with radiant original art by Erin Brown
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9 781788 495172
Illustrated by Erin Brown
ISBN 978-1-78849-517-2
W.B. YE ATS The Stolen C hild
Written when W.B. Yeats was just twenty-one, ‘The Stolen Child’ remains one of his most popular poems. At this time, the young poet was inspired by the landscape of County Sligo and the legends and superstitions he heard from the locals there. ‘The Stolen Child’ tells of a boy taken from his home by the faeries and led ‘hand in hand’ into their world. With its enchanting refrain – ‘Come away, o human child! To the waters and the wild’ – and vivid images of magic and nature, it is a pleasure for readers young and old.
W.B. Y E AT S
ERIN BROWN is a Northern Irish illustrator who lives and works on the beautiful island of Jersey. After she graduated from the University of Ulster with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art, a passion for stories and children’s books took hold. She combines her love for hand-drawn lines and traditional techniques with the flexibility and freedom of adding colour digitally. Erin’s other book for The O’Brien Press is Tread Softly: Classic Irish Poems for Children, edited by Nicola Reddy. erinbrownillo.co.uk
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T he S t ole n C h i ld
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865–1939) was a poet, playwright and politician. He was born in Sandymount and moved between Dublin, London and Sligo in his youth. He was one of the founders of the Irish Literary Theatre, later the Abbey Theatre. He was appointed to the Seanad at the dawn of the Irish Free State, in 1922, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. He is ranked among the greatest literary talents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and is widely regarded as Ireland’s national poet.
Here, the text is accompanied by radiant original art by Erin Brown, each illustration taking us on a visual journey through one of Ireland’s most famous poems.
Illustrated by
Erin Brown