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Series of fantasy novels for children by Susan Cooper

The Dark Is Ascension Sequence

British bus edition front comprehend[1]
Author	Susan Cooper
Encompass artist	Oliver Burston[i]
Land	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Children'southward fantasy novels
Publisher	Random House Children's Books[1]
Publication date	1984[ane]
Media type	Print (trade paperback)[1]
Pages	786 pp[ane]
ISBN	0-14-031688-four [1]
OCLC	50597816

The Nighttime Is Ascent Sequence is a series of five contemporary fantasy novels for older children and young adults that were written by the British author Susan Cooper and published from 1965 to 1977. The first book in the series, Over Body of water, Under Rock, was originally conceived as a stand-solitary novel,^[2] and the sequence gets its proper name from the second novel in the series, The Night Is Rising. The Dark Is Rising Sequence is used as an over-arching title in several jitney, boxed-set, and coordinated editions; just the championship of The Night is Rising is likewise used for the whole series.

The books depict a struggle between forces of good and evil called "The Light" and "The Dark", and draw upon Arthurian legends, Celtic mythology, Norse mythology and English folklore. Both magical and ordinary children are prominent throughout the series. Information technology was inaugurated in 1965 with the U.K. publication past Jonathan Cape of Over Sea, Under Stone. The sequels were published 1973 to 1977, almost simultaneously in the U.K. and the U.S.^{[iii] [a]} Book four, The Grey King (1975), won both the Newbery Medal, recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children",^[4] and the inaugural Welsh Tir na north-Og Award for English-language books with Welsh background. The final Silver on the Tree (1977) also won the almanac Tir na n-Og Award.^[v]

The novel The Night Is Rising features Will Stanton, age xi,^[b] who learns on that birthday that he is i of an ancient magical people called "Erstwhile Ones", and is destined to wield the powers of The Lite in the ancient struggle with The Dark. In the U.Due south. it was a Newbery Honor Book (runner upward for the medal).^[4] Its 2007 film adaptation, titled The Seeker in America and The Dark Is Ascent in Britain, made significant plot and character divergences from the book.

Characters [edit]

Simon, Jane, and Barnabas (Barney) Drew: The primary characters of the offset novel, the Drew family, are human children who take known Merriman Lyon as their "Great Uncle Merry" for years. While on a holiday in Cornwall, they go caught up in the boxing between the Light and the Night and join the search for the Things of Power. In the first novel, Over Bounding main, Under Stone, they search for the legendary Grail of King Arthur. They likewise appear in the third volume, Greenwitch, and the terminal volume in the series, Silverish on the Tree. In the poem featured prominently throughout The Dark Is Rising, they are the ones referred to as "three from the track". Their last proper noun is linked with Volition Stanton's in British paleohistory; run into Stanton Drew rock circles.

• Simon Drew: Simon is the eldest of the Drews. In Over Ocean, Under Stone, Simon and Barney are the ii to go into the cave and retrieve the Grail. In Greenwitch, he is jealous of Will because Merriman brought him to Cornwall for "unnecessary" reasons, but eventually warms upwards to him. He loves sailing and anything to do with ships.
• Jane Drew: Jane is the center Drew. In Greenwitch, Jane is allowed to nourish the Greenwitch ceremony, which is traditionally for female locals just, and through her compassion develops a special bond with the entity which constitutes the magical aspect of the Greenwitch. She afterwards receives from the entity the case containing the coded manuscript for deciphering the runes on the Grail. She as well develops a special bond with the Lady of the Low-cal in Argent on the Tree.
• Barnabas (Barney) Drew: Barney is the youngest of the Drews. He loves King Arthur legends and, although he is quite wary of his talent at offset, paints. In Greenwitch, Barney sketches a moving picture of the bay, which is afterwards stolen past an agent of the Dark, but Merriman recovers it and presents it to Tethys as a gift.

Quondam Ones: Ancient and immortal, the Sometime Ones are mystical beings who possess great magical power. They are found in all parts of the earth and are of many races and cultures. Capable of performing many seemingly impossible feats, including freezing time and decision-making the elements, they serve the Light in the war against the Dark. The Corking Lords of the Night take many similar characteristics and abilities only are not Quondam Ones. The two factions struggle to make up one's mind the destiny of mankind; while the Light fights for liberty and free will, the Dark fights for anarchy, confusion and the subversion of man's bureau.

Volition Stanton: The main grapheme of the 2nd novel, and a major character in the remaining novels of the serial, he is the seventh son of a 7th son, in a large, shut human family. His eleventh birthday^[b] marks the beginning of his magical awakening and rising to power equally the concluding of the Sometime Ones. The Nighttime Is Ascension tells how he came to power, met Merriman Lyon, and accumulated the vi "signs" to help fight the Dark. Volition is the concluding of the One-time Ones; no others will be born after him. In Greenwitch, he is invited to come to Cornwall by Merriman in order to help recover the Grail and aught that reveals how to read the runes on the Grail. He subsequently gives Jane a bracelet of gold engraved with the words "power from the Greenwitch", which she throws into the body of water as an offer to the Greenwitch in appreciation for its help. In The Grey Rex, Will goes to Wales to recover from sickness, where he meets Bran and awakens the Sleepers. In Silvery on the Tree, Will travels with Bran to the Lost Land to recover the crystal sword Eirias, and helps to vanquish the Dark. Volition is the only Old One to remain on World afterwards, and the only one of the Light'south allies who remembers the struggle against the Dark; in this, he is referred to as "the watchman", staying behind to keep sentinel for any try by the Nighttime to return.

Cooper named Will later William Shakespeare.^[half-dozen]

Merriman Lyon: Merriman is the first Old One. He and Volition Stanton have a special bail as each of them is one terminate of the long line of Old Ones. A friend of the Drew family for over a generation, he assisted Barney, Jane, and Simon in their quest for the Grail, in addition to protecting them until their task was completed; they occasionally refer to him every bit "Bang-up Uncle Merry" or "Gumerry". Throughout the series Merriman is portrayed in numerous historical periods, but particularly as King Arthur's master adviser, the mythical Merlin, as Arthur calls him "Mer Lion", old English language for "my king of beasts", in Silver on the Tree.

The Lady: The Lady is the most powerful of the Light, an Erstwhile One of seemingly greater strength than Merriman. Gentle, wise and enigmatic, she is a pivotal figure throughout the series, appearing commonly at important moments to turn the tide in the Light's favor. She is an especial friend and mentor to Volition and Jane. At one point in The Dark Is Ascent, Will Stanton makes a disquisitional mistake during a battle with the Dark and is saved by the Lady. Merriman tells Will that the Lady on her ain is the only one of the Light able to overcome the full ability of the Nighttime, although at a neat cost. The sacrifice by the Lady is a critical point in the Story because she is a key element of the battle. At a later loftier ceremony of Old Ones, the Lady is missing and Merriman tells Volition that her depleted power prevents her inflow, and she is beyond their magic to rescue only volition render. She represents the Lady of the Lake, or the Lady of Avalon, King Arthur'southward sis, as they both embark on Arthur's boat Pridwen in Silver on the Tree.^[7] The Lady, similar King Arthur, is affiliated with The Light and the High Magic. In Silvery on the Tree, she initially tin can only communicate with Jane Drew, the ane girl among the Vi, telling Jane they share a special bail in beingness female, and calls her "Jane, Jana, Juno", referring to Jana (in Roman mythology, a variant grade of Diana) or Juno, the queen of the gods.

The Black Passenger: One of the smashing Lords of the Dark, comparable to Merriman in ability and influence. The Passenger is the major nemesis of Will during his many trials. He patronises John Wayland Smith'south institution, where he meets Will for the first fourth dimension and attempts to bring Will over to the Dark. He is given ane proper name past the humans in the story: Mitothin (a proper name connected with the jötunn Loki, who helps bring about Ragnarok).

The White Passenger: Another retainer and Lord of the Night, introduced in Silver on the Tree. The White Passenger is nigh equal in ability to the Blackness Rider, and despite being feminine in her true form, often affects a masculine guise while attacking agents of the Lite. She is revealed as disguising herself as Blodwen Rowlands, an "aunt" effigy to Bran Davies. She acts kind and caring, to keep an eye on Bran while developing emotional bonds, while controlling events effectually Cader Idris, which ways "chair of Arthur", and the Sleepers. Will Stanton hypothesized that the monochromatic 'colour' of the White Rider'south robes, like those of the Black Rider, reflected the extremism of their evil—either darkened by their ignorance, or blinded by the brightness of their ideas.

The Walker: A homo who betrayed the Light and was cursed to behave the Sign of Bronze, 1 of six Things of Power that repel the Nighttime, through the centuries until the last Old One claimed it from him. The Walker was in one case Hawkin, a liege human being and foster son of Merriman during the 13th century. His betrayal of the Light stemmed largely from Merriman'south acceptance of Hawkin's willingness to sacrifice his life to protect the Book of Gramarye, the secrets of which the human Hawkin tin neither possess nor partake of. In The Nighttime Is Rising his advent in Volition Stanton's town precipitates Volition's "awakening" and ascent to power. He presents Will with his 2nd sign.

The Sleepers: Ancient knights who served during the fourth dimension of Rex Arthur. In The Grey King they are awakened from a mystic slumber by the Harp of the Light, to ride against the Dark during the final battle in Silver on the Tree.

Pendragon: This is a reference to 2 characters. Kickoff, information technology is the figurative title referring to status as a leader, of several traditional Kings of the Britons, notably King Arthur. It is also his son in this series, Bran Davies, who is predestined to wield the Crystal Sword of Light that is vital to the final conflict with the Nighttime. Bran Davies is brought forward in time by Merriman at the request of his mother, Guinevere, who feared that Arthur would reject Bran equally a true son because of Guinevere'due south thing with Lancelot. Bran is an albino, pregnant he has very pale skin and white hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes, but his optics are an unusual tawny colour. Volition meets him in Wales during The Grey King, where they wake the Sleepers using the Harp. In Silver on the Tree, Bran and Will travel to the Lost Country and recover the sword Eirias.

The rooks: The bulk of these birds are servants of the Nighttime and attract their forces wherever they are seen.

Farmer Dawson: An Old Ane who lives near Will Stanton and presents him with his first Sign.

John Wayland Smith: Another Old One who lives near Volition Stanton; he is too a skilled smith. Though he is affiliated with the Light, he aids all who laissez passer in his smithy. Information technology is suggested that he might exist the legendary Saxon smith, Weyland, the Saxon equivalent of the legendary elf smith Volund.

Artifacts [edit]

Things of Ability: The Old Ones accept iv Things of Ability that will be used in the concluding battle which volition let them to defeat the Dark: the circle of Signs, the Grail, the Harp, and the Sword. They are obtained in The Dark Is Rise, Over Ocean, Nether Stone, The Greyness Rex, and Silver on the Tree, respectively. Greenwitch is the story of the recovery of the stolen Grail.

• The Signs: A set of half-dozen circles quartered (divided evenly in four sections) by crosses. The six signs are each made of a different material and represent a different element: wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, and stone. The 6 Signs represent the Six champions of the Light, referred to in the recurring Poem of the Dark Is Rising serial, as "iii from the Circumvolve, three from the Track". When used, the signs have the power to repel the Dark.
• The Grail: Made in imitation of the Holy Grail from the King Arthur legends, it is an antiquity of power used by the Calorie-free. At that place are markings on it in a writing similar to Ogham, which is long lost. It is eventually translated by the Old Ones, thanks to a coded manuscript inside a metal case held by the Greenwitch.
• The Harp (the harp of golden): A golden harp that is obtained past Will Stanton and Bran Davies from a triumvirate of the Loftier Magic by answering three riddles. The Light uses it in The Grayness King in order to wake the Sleepers in preparation for the last battle. Whoever plays the harp creates powerful music that negates any magic, through the protection of the High Magic.
• The Crystal Sword: A magical sword, commissioned by the Lite, crafted in the magical Lost Lands by the Lost Male monarch. It is named Eirias; therefore, "blazing", also chosen sword of the sunrise. In the presence of the Dark, it burns with blue burn down. It tin cut portals through magical barriers, equally seen in Silver on the Tree, and is encased in a magical scabbard of invisibility. Information technology is used by Bran Davies, the Pendragon, heir of Rex Arthur, to cut the one fully blossomed silver flower on the Midsummer's Tree, which is caught by Merriman.

The Book of Gramarye: The aboriginal Book of the Erstwhile Ones, it is an Old One'due south rite of passage, while likewise teaching everything about their powers, and through information technology, they experience the magical spells. Gramarye, or grimoire, from the Old French word grammaire and the Old English language give-and-take grammar, initially referred to all books, near written in Latin, which almost no 1 could read, and perceived by the masses equally "magical". The Volume of Gramarye is protected by an enchanted device of a pendulum in a longcase clock, that if touched, volition detonate and destroy whatsoever human being that attempts to gain admission to the book. This powerful book is further protected in that it is written in the Quondam Speech, which only an Old Ane tin can read and understand. It is blasted out of being by Merriman after Volition has read it.

The Doors: A set of carved oak doors that pb through Time. One-time Ones can summon these doors to appear at will to transport themselves through time and space. The doors disappear when the Sometime Ones pass through them, accompanied by the haunting bong chinkle music of the Light. Their origin is not explained in the books.

Midsummer's Tree: In Chiltern, England, The Tree produces a silver flower, which blooms once every 700 years, and is the final challenge for the Vi of the Light. The person who obtains the silver blossom gains control of the Loftier Magic, to put out of Time the Nighttime or the Light forever. Bran Davies, the Pendragon and heir of Male monarch Arthur, wields the Crystal Sword to cutting the fully blossomed argent bloom on the Midsummer's Tree, which is caught past Merriman, making the Low-cal victorious.

The Magics [edit]

Former Magic: A powerful elemental magic, of which the Light and the Night are the ii opposite extremes.

Wild Magic: The magic of nature, first used in The Dark Is Rising to provide strength to the forces of the Light in the volume's final boxing. In Greenwitch, we acquire that the Wild Magic is equal in strength to both the Nighttime and the Light, merely that it stands apart and is unaffected by either.

High Magic: The almost powerful magic, being of the Cosmos. A spell of this type is used by the Old Ones in Greenwitch to be able to communicate with Tethys, the Queen of the Sea, and plead for her assist in obtaining the whorl that will aid translate the writing on the Grail. In The Grey King, Will Stanton and Bran Davies obtain the Harp of Aureate from a place guarded by the High Magic after being tested by a Lord of the Night, a Lord of the Calorie-free, and a Lord of the High Magic.

One-time Spoken language [edit]

Old Speech is the spoken form of the aboriginal language of the Old Ones. When an Old One comes to power, this language is used instinctively by the Old Ane when speaking to members of the Calorie-free or the Nighttime. Will Stanton begins to do this without fifty-fifty realizing it. When an One-time Ane speaks the Old Speech in front end of a normal human, it volition sound similar gibberish. Some agents of the Dark, such as the Rider, tin can also speak Old Speech, but with a distinctive emphasis which gives them abroad to the One-time Ones.

Rhymes [edit]

Pocket-sized rhyming prophecies serve to guide the protagonists throughout the series. Science fiction writer and filker Julia Ecklar has set these rhyming prophecies to music, and the resulting vocal, also called "The Dark Is Rise", won the 1997 Pegasus Accolade for Best Sorcery Song.^[8]

Works in the series [edit]

Over Sea, Nether Stone [edit]

The characters in this book, which was published several years earlier the others, are younger than those in the rest of the serial, and the issues are presented as less cosmic. Overall the volume is aimed at younger readers more than than the other iv books in the serial.

In this tale, Susan Cooper introduces the audience to Merriman, a pivotal grapheme for the forces of the Light and also ties him with Simon, Jane and Barney Drew, 3 young mortal children, in a quest by the body of water which will lead them over sea and nether stone to find a grail of legend to assist the Light in its struggle against the Dark.

The Dark Is Ascent [edit]

You lot are the seventh son of a seventh son, Volition Stanton. Y'all step through time. One by i, the Signs will call to you. You volition gather them and gain the power of the Lite. You lot are the Sign-Seeker.

The second book is set not on the Cornish declension simply in rural Buckinghamshire, near the River Thames, and features a new group of characters. Will Stanton, the protagonist, begins to have foreign experiences on his 11th^[b] altogether, just before Christmas. He learns he is one of the One-time Ones, a guardian and warrior for the Light, and that he must help notice the 4 Things of Power in order that the Calorie-free may battle the forces of the Night. The first of these is the Circle of Half dozen Signs, and the novel follows Will'southward adventures as he finds each one of these mandalas, which are and then joined into a competed circle and used to ward off the forces of the Dark. The book features elements of English sociology that are especially associated with the Thames Valley, with Herne the Hunter and Wayland the Smith making an appearance. Merriman/Merlin also makes an appearance, linking this book to the previous 1.

The Dark Is Rising was an American Library Association Newbery Honor Book in 1974. Based on a 2007 online poll, the U.S. National Education Clan listed it as one of "Teachers' Summit 100 Books for Children".^[9] In 2012 it was ranked number 22 among best children'southward novels in a survey published past Schoolhouse Library Periodical, a monthly with primarily U.S. audience.^[10]

Greenwitch [edit]

This story returns to the Cornish hamlet, and unites the characters from the first ii books. The beaker has been stolen from the museum, and the children must recover it.

Jane Drew witnesses the creation of a ritualistic offering known as the 'Greenwitch', and senses both great ability and bang-up sadness in it. She wishes that the Greenwitch could be happy, and that wish has important consequences later when information technology turns out that the Greenwitch possesses something that will unlock the secrets of the Grail.

The Grey Rex [edit]

In this book, Will is sent to the farm of some distant childless relatives to recuperate after an disease. Hither in the Welsh hills he meets Bran, the Pendragon, son of Rex Arthur, and befriends him. He must likewise awaken the Sleepers to fight the Dark.

The Grey Male monarch was awarded the 1976 Newbery Medal.

Silver on the Tree [edit]

All of the main characters from the other books in the sequence come together in this book, some meeting for the offset fourth dimension, and the struggle between the Light and the Night is resolved. After the Light wins the battle, Bran is offered a chance to rejoin his male parent, but chooses to give up his immortality to stay with his friends and his mortal adoptive father. All immortal characters except Will Stanton leave the Globe forever. All the mortal characters lose all memory of any dealings with magic and the Old Ones, though the Drews and Bran have snatches of something come up back to them in dreams. Will is the Watchman, who will watch out for any attempts of the dark to return.

Locations [edit]

Nearly all the locations mentioned in the books are based on real places. Over Body of water, Under Rock and Greenwitch are prepare in Trewissick, which is based on a village in southern Cornwall called Mevagissey which Susan Cooper used to visit as a child. The Dark Is Rise is prepare in the part of Buckinghamshire where Cooper grew up: Huntercombe is based on the small village of Dorney, and the Manor is Dorney Court. The Welsh setting in The Grayness King and Silver on the Tree is the area around Aberdyfi, the village where Cooper's grandmother was born and where her parents lived.^[11]

Critical reception [edit]

John Clute wrote in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy "The overall tale evolves – not without occasional narrative confusion when time paradoxes and puzzles must be confronted – towards a guardedly affirmative climax in which information technology seems that the various immature protagonists plus Bran Davies (King Arthur's son) may succeed in staving off entropy and totalitarianism."^[12]

Karen Patricia Smith wrote "Susan Cooper has come to exist recognized equally a major writer of books for children and young adults. Her first work for children, Over Bounding main, Under Stone came as a response to a contest designed to honor the memory of E. Nesbit. Cooper's major contribution to date has been The Night Is Rising series, which greatly expands the mythical theme suggested in Over Body of water, Under Stone and reveals Cooper's extraordinary prowess every bit an writer of fantasy... The shadowy attribute of the conflict and the inability to 'read' clearly the motivations of some of the characters are areas in which Cooper has been criticized. Nonetheless, I feel that the ambivalence of protagonists and antagonists is a deliberate literary device. Rather than succumbing to artistic flaw, Cooper goes beyond the conventional expectations of her readers by inviting them to glimpse the complex, the unexplainable, and often the threatening aspects of mankind'due south nature. Past offer the thesis that the homo psyche may manifest itself in explicit actions or present itself in a mysterious and often frustrating mode, Cooper exceeds the traditional presentations of good versus evil ofttimes found in fantasy literature."^[thirteen]

Mary Corran has written "Cooper'southward scholarly cognition of legend, and skill in drawing together all the complexities of the five books into a triumphant finale, produce an ballsy of great power. In that location are differences in quality in the novels--Greenwitch...is perhaps the weakest, and The Nighttime Is Rising and The Gray King the strongest; Silver on the Tree, while suitably life-affirming in its conclusion, is slightly preachy, merely that is a natural hazard of the discipline matter. Cooper deals with the innate antagonism between mortals and immortals impressively, and in The Grey King reaches great heights as she mingles the worlds and peoples of legend and the present day. The sequence is a remarkable achievement, and Cooper's gifts for description and characterization provide additional pleasance to novels already replete with intellectual enjoyment."^[14]

Joel Chaston writes "Among Cooper'southward books for children, the Night Is Rising series is her masterwork. The five novels in information technology are rich with symbolism and poetic passages. The Dark Is Ascent, mayhap the all-time single book of the series, certainly rivals and sometimes surpasses the work of the major fantasy writers--with whose work it is ofttimes compared."^[vi]

Amelia A. Rutledge says that the serial "integrates the traditional lore of the British Isles with modernistic concerns. Her work, although commercially designated for a younger audience, exemplifies sophisticated mythopoeic writing non limited to that historic period group and is 1 of the major contributions to Arthurian fantasy of the 1970s."^[15]

Professor Michael D. C. Drout argues that Cooper makes greater "use of Anglo-Saxon source materials" than other critics have identified: "Cooper's uses of Anglo-Saxon sources are allusions that fit into a schema of history rather than (in the words of one reviewer) being only tossed "pell-mell" into the mythical pot... Information technology is Cooper'southward Anglo-Saxonism, I argue, which generates the notions of British national identity explicated in the novels, notions that contradict the author'due south overt political opinion. In improver, Cooper's particular version of Anglo-Saxonism, with its strong focus on teaching and learning, is isomorphic to the ideology of adult/child power relations represented in the novels, an ideology that puts great weight on the value of obedience to authority. Adult/child power relations are both replicated and reinforced by 2 other sets of opposed terms: British/non-British and supernatural/mundane, and all of these terms are finally subsumed in Cooper'due south Manichaean binary, Low-cal/Dark, leading to a closed symbolic economy which exalts personal obedience to authority and views Anglo-Saxons and their ideologies—as they were for the Venerable Bede in A.D. 771—as clearly on the side of the angels."^[16]

The New York Times Book Review wrote of the novel The Dark Is Rising "This is a muscular fantasy... The writing is robust, but noticeably better out of human time than at the Stanton hearth: as if the author'due south style, too, had experienced a salutary, magical translation... The fantastic style is virile and, for all its paraphernalia, spare. Susan Cooper'due south vocabulary is athletic; the complications are dense. Her book seems to have been prepared for a special small historic period group: those who tin can read with fluency and attending, but who haven't nevertheless been afflicted by boyish cynicism."^[17]

Film adaptation [edit]

Following the successful film adaptations of other fantasy classics, it was announced in 2005 that the novel The Night Is Rising was being adult every bit a major motion picture show. Called The Seeker in the US, the film was a articulation venture betwixt 20th Century Pull a fast one on and Walden Media. John Hodge wrote the screenplay and the film was directed by David 50. Cunningham and produced past Marc E. Platt. Ian McShane played the role of Merriman Lyon while Alexander Ludwig played the young Will Stanton as an American. Frances Conroy and Christopher Eccleston (as The Rider)[ane] also star. Filming began in February 2007 in Bucharest, Romania. The film was released on five October 2007, in the United states of america and the U.Yard. Information technology was not successful.

Screenwriter Hodge fabricated substantial changes to the novel's plot, tone, and characters. For case, to differentiate him from Harry Potter, the film version of Will Stanton is a xiii- to 14-year-onetime^[b] American living in Britain. Hodge besides felt that the "lyrical, poetic, kaleidoscopic mode" of the book could non be filmed and felt compelled to add together action for Will where "he doesn't really do very much."^{[18] [19]}

Cooper was disappointed past changes in the screenplay from the book and requested that some be undone. For example, she considers it crucial that Will is only 11 because that is earlier puberty.^[xviii] The pic portrays, and one of its trailers featured, Volition as an adolescent teased for and preoccupied with his shyness and inexperience with girls.^[19]

See too [edit]

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Almost simultaneous: ISFDB reports 1965 UK and 1966 United states of america publication of the first book and matching publication years for the sequels: April United states and May UK, volume ii; US months missing, volumes 3 and 4; September U.s.a. and October UK, book 5.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Volition Stanton's eleventh birthday is momentous in the book. In the Hollywood version he is xiii to 14 years old (and American) in order to aid distinguish him from Harry Potter, a subsequently cosmos but earlier international film success who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard.

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f yard} The Dark Is Ascent showtime motorbus edition publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2012-02-25.
2. ^ Thompson, Raymond H. (2 July 1989). "Interview with Susan Cooper". Academy of Rochester | Robbins Library Digital Projects | The Camelot Project . Retrieved 17 Jan 2022. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
3. ^ The Dark Is Ascent Sequence series list at the Net Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2012-02-26.
4. ^ ^{a b} "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Nowadays". Association for Library Service to Children. ALA. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
5. ^ "Tir na n-Og awards past winners" Archived x March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Welsh Books Council (Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru). Retrieved 2012-02-26.
6. ^ ^{a b} Chaston, Joel D. (1996). "Susan (Mary) Cooper". In Caroline C. Chase (ed.). Lexicon of Literary Biography Vol. 161: British Children's Writers Since 1960: Offset Series. Detroit: Gale.
7. ^ The Silver Tree, page 265. Edition: Simon & Schuster, 2010, ISBN 9780689849183. (This is the second folio of the terminal chapter.)
8. ^ Included on Ecklar'south CD Horsetamer.
9. ^ National Teaching Association (2007). "Teachers' Acme 100 Books for Children". Retrieved 19 August 2012.
10. ^ Bird, Elizabeth (7 July 2012). "Tiptop 100 Affiliate Book Poll Results". Schoolhouse Library Journal. A Fuse #viii Production. Blog (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com). Retrieved 19 August 2012.
11. ^ "Interview with Susan Cooper | Robbins Library Digital Projects". d.lib.rochester.edu . Retrieved 31 March 2022.
12. ^ Clute, John (1997). "Cooper, Susan". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . Retrieved 5 August 2013.
13. ^ Smith, Karen Patricia (1994). "Susan Cooper: Overview". In Laura Standley Berger (ed.). Twentieth-Century Immature Adult Writers. Detroit: St. James Press.
14. ^ Corran, Mary (1996). "Susan Cooper: Overview". In David Pringle (ed.). St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers. New York: St. James Printing. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
15. ^ Rutledge, Amelia A. (2002). "Susan (Mary) Cooper". In Darren Harris-Fain (ed.). Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 261: British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Since 1960. Detroit: Gale.
16. ^ Drout, Michael D. C. (April 1997). "Reading the Signs of Light: Anglo Saxonism, Education, and Obedience in Susan Cooper'due south The Dark Is Rising". The Lion and the Unicorn. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. 21 (two): 230–250. doi:10.1353/uni.1997.0039. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
17. ^ Mano, D. Keith (22 April 1973). "The Dark Is Ascent". The New York Times Book Review. p. 8. Retrieved five Baronial 2013.
18. ^ ^{a b} Margot Adler (1 October 2007). "Writer Uncertain Nearly 'Nighttime' Leap to Big Screen". National Public Radio (NPR). Retrieved 11 October 2007.
19. ^ ^{a b} Margot Adler (27 September 2007). "Author Uncertain About 'Dark' Leap to Big Screen". All Things Considered. NPR. Radio broadcast narrated past Adler incorporating material from interviews with Susan Cooper and John Hodge. Audio transcript at npr.org (select "Listen to the story") retrieved 2013-01-09.

External links [edit]

• Susan Cooper at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Lost Land – further data on the series.

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