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    The Seventh Raven
    The Seventh Raven
    The Seventh Raven
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    The Seventh Raven

    By David Elliott

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    Best-selling author David Elliott examines the timeless themes of balance, transformation, and restoration in this evocative tale about a girl who will stop at nothing to reverse a curse that turned her seven brothers into ravens. 

    And these are the sons
    Of good Jack and good Jane
    The eldest is Jack
    And the next one is Jack
    And the third one’s called Jack
    And the fourth’s known as Jack
    And the fifth says he’s Jack
    And they call the sixth Jack
    But the seventh’s not Jack
    The seventh is Robyn
     
    And this is his story

    When Robyn and his brothers are turned into ravens through the work of an unlucky curse, a sister is their only hope to become human again. Though she’s never met her brothers, April will stop at nothing to restore their humanity. But what about Robyn, who always felt a greater affinity to the air than to the earth-bound lives of his family?

    David Elliott’s latest novel in verse explores the unintended consequences of our actions, no matter our intentions, and is filled with powerful messages teased from a Grimms’ fairy tale. Stunning black-and-white illustrations throughout by Rovina Cai. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 16, 2021
    ISBN9780358252085
    Author

    David Elliott

    David Elliott is the award-winning author of more than twenty-five books for young people, including the picture books On the Farm and the New York Times bestselling And Here’s to You! He is the author of the critically acclaimed verse novels Bull, which received six starred reviews, and Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, which was shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award and is the recipient of the Claudia Lewis Award for poetry. A native of Ohio, David now lives (and writes) in New Hampshire with his wife and their Dandie Dinmont terrier, Quiggy. Learn more about David by visiting davidelliottbooks.com.

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      The Seventh Raven - David Elliott

      title page

      Contents

      Title Page

      Contents

      Frontispiece

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      Change

      Robyn

      Jack

      Jane

      Robyn

      Robyn

      Jack

      Jane

      Robyn

      Robyn

      Robyn

      Robyn

      Discovery

      April

      Jane

      April

      Jack

      April

      Robyn

      April

      April

      Jane

      Jack

      Robyn

      April

      Jane

      Jack

      April

      Journey

      April

      Robyn

      April

      April

      The Crone

      April

      Robyn

      April

      Jack

      Jane

      The King

      April

      The King

      April

      The Crone

      Robyn

      April

      The Crone

      April

      Robyn

      The Queen

      April

      The Queen

      April

      April

      The Crone

      Change

      April

      Robyn

      Robyn

      The Crone

      April

      April

      Robyn

      Epilogue

      April

      Robyn

      A Note about Poetic Form

      Sample Chapters from VOICES

      Buy the Book

      Other Novels in Verse by David Elliott

      Escape to Another World

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      About the Author

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      Copyright © 2021 by David Elliott

      Illustrations copyright © 2021 by Rovina Cai

      All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to [email protected] or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.

      hmhbooks.com

      Cover illustration © 2021 by Jonathan Bartlett

      Cover design by Sharismar Rodriguez

      The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is on file.

      ISBN: 978-0-358-25211-5

      eISBN 978-0-358-25208-5

      v2.0321

      To my COVID companions:

      Hester, Jane, Kyoko, Pam, Sinan.

      I’m with Proust:

      "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy"

      The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

      —Carl Jung

      I

      Change

      AND this is the forest

      With its primeval trees

      And their taciturn trunks

      And their hungering roots

      Like curious tongues

      That kiss the hard stones

      And lap the warm rain

      And speak to the earth

      In the language of trees

      And here are the limbs

      Their itinerant twigs

      The finely veined leaves

      That are unblinking eyes

      And the eyes watch the wolf

      And the eyes watch the bear

      And the eyes watch the back

      Of the ravening boar

      That runs wild through the forest

      And when the wind howls

      The eyes tumble down

      And leave the trees blind

      Behold the rough bark

      With its numberless ears

      That cling to the tree

      And hear the birth pangs

      Of the fox and the deer

      And the growl of the cat

      And the break of the branch

      And the flight of the stag

      And the screech of the owl

      And the flap of its wing

      And the cry of the hare

      And the rip of soft flesh

      And the silence of blood

      AND this is the river

      That runs through the forest

      And the river’s a rope

      That cannot be tied

      And the river’s a secret

      That cannot be told

      And the river’s a riddle

      That cannot be guessed

      And the river’s a snake

      Ever shedding its skin

      And the river’s a bow

      On the strings of the earth

      And the river’s a mouth

      That devours the sun

      And the river’s a throat

      That swallows the moon

      And the river’s a song

      That sings to itself

      In the ancient and sibilant

      Language of rivers

      AND this is the cottage

      That’s built near the river

      Its timbers are aching

      Its floorboards are cracking

      And creaking they’re quaking

      From so many boots

      Stomping in stamping out

      Eight pairs of boots

      Stomping in stamping out

      So many boots

      Stomping in stamping out

      Day after day after day after day

      And the hearth burns too hot

      And the thatch whispers Stop

      And the footsteps are heavy

      And the joists beg for mercy

      But the heels have no pity

      And the boots they keep coming

      Eight pairs of boots

      Stomping in stamping out

      Day after day after day after day

      AND here are the boys

      Who live in the cottage

      The eldest is Jack

      And the next one is Jack

      And the third one’s called Jack

      And the fourth’s known as Jack

      And the fifth says he’s Jack

      And they call the sixth Jack

      But the seventh’s not Jack

      The seventh is Robyn

      And this is his story

      Robyn

      They called me Robyn. How did they know from the very start

      that the murmuring beat of my infant heart

      would not conform to the rhythms of my brothers’?

      One no different

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