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An audio production of The Moorchild is also available and highly recommended by reviewers as a supplement to the written version.
For students wishing to read other stories of the fantasy, folklore, and legend of the British Isles, The Dark Is Rising series, by Susan Cooper, is a fine choice. One book in the series, The Grey King, won the Newbery Medal in 1975. The Harry Potter series, by J. K. Rowling, is also a must for the British fantasy fan. Though set in present-day England, the tales have countless references to legend and folklore. Other recent British fantasy includes a series of three satiric novels for young adults by Terry Prachett, individually titled Truckers, Diggers, and Flyers. In these stories, a clan of "nomes" take on the human world with astonishing and sometimes comical results.
Older students may want to read Shakespeare's A Midsummer...
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