2022/51: The Changeling -- Rosemary Sutcliff

2022/51: The Changeling -- Rosemary Sutcliff

Something flashed downstream. Not the blue flash of a kingfisher, but something stranger, more shining and yet more shadowy. And looking after it, Murna's sight was caught and dazzled by the low sunlight through the budding twig-tangle. And when the sun-dazzle let her go, and she looked round again, there in the hollow of the alder roots, instead of her own red-haired baby, lay a tiny creature with great dark eyes in a little wizened face. [p. 20]

I hadn't previously read this short work by Sutcliff, written for the Antelope imprint of books for primary-school children and illustrated by the splendid Victor Ambrus( Read more... )