Books with author Katherine Prior

The Counterpane Fairy is a children’s story written and illustrated by Katherine Pyle.A little boy named Teddy, bedridden by a long illness, lies in his bed recuperating, when he is visited by the Counterpane[1] Fairy. She entertains him during her frequent visits with stories, each associated with quilted squares in the counterpane. During each visit she has him concentrate intently on a square until it turns into something and becomes a doorway into the story. Once inside the story, he becomes the lead character until the end when it fades away and he awakens.[1} a Counterpane is known variously as a quilt, eiderdown or throw.================KEYWORDS/TAGS: Counterpane fairy, teddy, folklore, fairy tales, myths and legends, children’s stories, mothers with children, mothers to be, grandparents, pregnant women, Aureline, Bear, beautiful, bed-ridden, Bird-maiden, brave, castle, palace, circus, count, Dumpy, dwarfs, Ellen, flew, fountain, gamblesome, gold, Hannah, Harriett, hospital, illness, magic, mamma, mermen, Owl, Princess, rainbow, robber, Silverling, soldiers, Sprawley, square, Starlein, all of a sudden, ugly, whisper, widow, wings, yellow, dreams, entertain, tales and stories, visit,

It is London 1665, a year fraught with strange and unearthly events. Comets fly low in the sky while merchants clamor for war. Eleven year old Erasmus T. Muddiman attends St Paul’s School with his younger brother. He enjoys Latin but hates to create Latin verses, preferring the new sciences as seen at the Royal Society. He plays football with the lads in Paul’s Yard, shimmies up the drainpipe outside his bedchamber window and he saves his brother, Desiderius, from all sorts of scrapes. Soon, Erasmus cannot avoid the rumors of war. Men and boys are pressganged, taken to ships or the dockyards. Plague enters the city. As school fellows disappear, Erasmus and his family meet a terrible fate of survival. Who will live and who will die?ReviewBloody Good Stuff !!!! I found everything fitted admirably in place and the sequence wonderful.A work to be proud of, Kev Richardson, Historian

Angus Mac Pherson had one daughter, and she was so beautiful that it made the heart ache to look at her. Her hair was of red gold; her eyes were as blue as the sky and she was as slim and fair as a reed, and because of her beauty she was always called the Fair Ellen.Angus Mac Pherson loved Fair Ellen as he did the apple of his eye, but all the same her mother had only been dead a year when he was for marrying again and bringing a stepmother into the house.The new wife was handsome too, with eyes as black as sloes, and hair like a cloud at night, but the moment she saw Fair Ellen she knew the girl was the more beautiful, and she hated her with a bitter black hate for her beauty’s sake.

A pristine planet is about to undergo a terrible change. Hepitia, the Star Goddess, watches a spaceship careen out of control through her galaxy. Embroiled in an old quarrel with her goddess sisters, Hepitia allows the ship to crash land on a green and silver planet, knowing it will unleash chaos where Arianhod and Ulyia rule. Augustus carries the last of his species in the spacecraft. They crash on a forested hill the natives consider a god-place. Before long Augustus finds the planet is unlike anything he’s ever experienced. Megaliths stand silent in the forest. Strange beings flit in and out of their vision. There are strange water-filled portals to the goddesses’ Otherworld.When a young man of the planet and a daughter of Augustus’ people disappear, the two species come together to search for their lost ones. When they locate Ruulf and Isabeaux, what will they find? Who will live and who will die?