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Blue John Find!
Wow - have just rediscovered this wonderful picture book by local author Berlie Doherty - a great writer whose many books are inspired by the beautiful Peak District landscape in which she lives . It is beautifully illustrated by Tim Clarey and tells the story of the Queen of Darkness who lives under the ground in the shadow of a mountain, Mam Tor. Before she was carried down into the shelter of the cavern, she snatched the two things she could not bear to leave behind - the purple-blue heart of the glacier and the gold of the sun. Out of these she makes a child and names him Blue John. He lives in the caves with her, forbidden to go out into the light but one day a party of children comes to the caves and Blue John follows them out into the sunshine and is turned to stone.
Absolutely fantastic!
(Blue John is a precious stone mined in the Blue John and Treak caverns of Derbyshire. )
11 September 2009 from Angela Wilkinson
Finds
- The lost villages of Derwent and Ashopton
- Fludd by Hilary Mantell
- A Beautiful Place for a Murder
- Jeannie of White Peak Farm
- Unrest of their Time
- Derbyshire wins the Booker Prize!
- John Buxton Hilton: Rescue from the Rose
- The Mermaid poem by Henry Kirke
- Poems of Peak and Dale
- Arnemetia
- Poole's Cavern, Buxton
- In Place of Execution....
- Scared to live
- The Jane Eyre Connection
- Haunted Derbyshire and the Peak District
- Narnia in the Peak District?
- The Wonders of the Peake...
- Night Angels: a scary episode on the Snake Pass
- Blue John
- Buxton under the crust.....
- Mysterious Mermaid in Derbyshire
- Ghost walks
- The poet and the pool.....
- More murder in the Peak District
- Inspired by the Peak
- Bygone Derbyshire clues
- Finished!
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