‘Something was stirring in the valley, something powerful and old.
Something which had no place in the rational modern world…’
I’ve become slightly obsessed with ‘The Owl Service’ by Alan Garner and have read the first chapter to just about any child who will sit still long enough this week. I have been taken over by the same magic that causes Alison is obsess about the flowery ‘owl’ pattern on an old dinner service which Gwyn discovers after she hears scatching in the loft.
At the Story Room in Muswell Hill (South Friern Library) on October 4th 2014 2.00pm to 4.00pm I will introducing more children to this haunting, tense novel… and we will be attempting to make our own owls!
“If you take the design off the plate and fit it together it makes a complete owl. See. I’ve traced the two parts of the design, and all you do is turn the head right round till it’s the other way up, and then join it to the top of the main pattern where it follows the rim of the plate. There you are. It’s an owl – head, wings and all”.
To find out more contact helena@storyroom.co.uk
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