{"product_id":"tarka-the-otter-1","title":"Tarka the Otter","description":"One of the best-loved animal stories of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Twilight over meadow and water, the eve-star shining above the hill, and Old Nog the heron crying kra-a-ark! as his slow dark wings carried him down to the estuary.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe classic story of an otter living in the Devonshire countryside which captures the feel of life in the wild as seen through the otter''s own eyes.\u003cbr\u003eTarka is born in Owlery Holt, near Canal Bridge on the River Torridge, where he grows up with his mother and sisters, learning to swim and catch fish, and to beware the hunters'' cry. His life is one of adventure and play, but soon he must fend for himself, travelling along streams and rivers to the open sea, sometimes with female otters White-tip and Greymuzzle. Always on the run, Tarka has many close shaves until he finally meets his nemesis, the fearsome hound Deadlock.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry William Williamson was born in 1895 in Brockley, south-east London. The then semi-rural location provided easy access to the countryside, and he developed a deep love of nature throughout his childhood. He became a prolific author known for his natural and social history novels. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literatrure in 1928 for Tarka the Otter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso available in A Puffin Book: \u003cbr\u003eGOODNIGHT MISTER TOM and BACK HOME by Michelle Magorian \u003cbr\u003eCHARLOTTE''S WEB, STUART LITTLE and THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E. B. White \u003cbr\u003eTHE BORROWERS by Mary Norton\u003cbr\u003eSTIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King\u003cbr\u003eROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D. Taylor\u003cbr\u003eA DOG SO SMALL by Philippa Pearce\u003cbr\u003eGOBBOLINO by Ursula Moray Williams\u003cbr\u003eMRS FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH by Richard C O''Brien\u003cbr\u003eA WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L''Engle\u003cbr\u003eTHE CAY by Theodore Taylor\u003cbr\u003eWATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams\u003cbr\u003eSMITH by Leon Garfield\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEVERENDING STORY by Michael Ende\u003cbr\u003eANNIE by Thomas Meehan\u003cbr\u003eTHE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET by Eve Garnett","brand":"Penguin Random House Children's UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51446816899419,"sku":"9780141354958","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/tarka-the-otter-1","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}