Treacle Walker

Resource Information

The work Treacle Walker represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Treacle Walker

Statement of responsibility

Alan Garner

Creator

• Garner, Alan, 1934-

Author

• Garner, Alan, 1934-

Subject

• Cheshire (England) -- Fiction
• Friendship -- Fiction
• Tramps -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

'Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!' Joe looked up from his comic and lifted his eye patch. There was a white pony in the yard. It was harnessed to a cart, a flat cart, with a wooden chest on it. A man was sitting at a front corner of the cart, holding the reins. His face was creased. He wore a long coat and a floppy high-crowned hat, with hair straggling beneath, and a leather bag was slung from his shoulder across his hip. Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers. When Treacle Walker appears off the Cheshire moor one day -- a wanderer, a healer -- an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to a world he could never have imagined

Cataloging source

SALS

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult