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What if the fields around you could call up the people who once walked them?
In Rudyard Kipling’s Rewards and Fairies, brother and sister Dan and Una meet Puck in the Sussex countryside. The old spirit brings people from the past to tell their stories. Herbalists, queens, priests and smugglers turn familiar fields into a meeting place for history, myth and magic.
These linked tales and poems move from sheep keepers with flint tools to Nicholas Culpeper’s work as a healer. In Brother Square-Toes, the smuggler Pharaoh Lee meets George Washington and faces a question of loyalty. Poems, including If, offer another way to think about the choices within the stories.
What you’ll discover
- The past within reach Join curious Dan and thoughtful Una as Puck gives the past a voice.
- Life before metal The Knife and the Naked Chalk takes you among sheep keepers who make tools from flint.
- Medicine for ordinary people Meet Nicholas Culpeper, who wants healing to be something ordinary people can understand and afford.
- A smuggler’s divided loyalty Follow Pharaoh Lee in Brother Square-Toes as his meeting with Washington tests where he belongs.
- Poems beside the tales Pause with If and other verses that quietly comment on the stories around them.
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For readers who love history told as story, short tales with a poem after each, and a gentle English countryside setting where Puck brings the past to life.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Two children meet an old spirit
- The land holds its oldest stories
- A healer, a queen and a saint
- Brother Square-Toes and the cost of freedom
- Poems that frame every tale
- Justice, craft and the memory of a place
Who’s who
- DanA Sussex boy, curious and bold, who listens to Puck's visitors and asks the questions that draw out their stories.
- UnaDan's sister, thoughtful and quick, who is just as ready as her brother to listen and often sees the heart of a tale.
- PuckAlso called Robin Goodfellow, the oldest spirit of England, who calls the past to life for the children and teases them as he goes.
- HobdenAn old hedger who knows the land and its creatures, and who treats Puck and the past with calm, practical ease.
- Nicholas CulpeperA seventeenth century herbalist who wants ordinary people to have plain medicine they can understand and afford.
- Pharaoh LeeA Romany smuggler and seaman who meets George Washington and must decide where his loyalty lies.
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Rewards and Fairies
by Rudyard Kipling · 1910
In the Sussex fields, Puck brings Dan and Una voices from the past, with stories of courage, loyalty and choice.
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Two children meet an old spirit
The frame of the book is simple. Dan and Una are a brother and sister who live in the Sussex countryside. In the first book they accidentally summoned Puck by acting a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream on a midsummer day inside a fairy ring. Puck stayed on as their guide, and in this second book he is still there.
Puck is not the pretty fairy of picture books. He says he is the oldest Old Thing in England, and he has seen people come and go on these hills for thousands of years. He cannot be commanded, but he can be asked. When he is in the mood, he brings a visitor out of the past, and the children sit in the grass and listen.
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What is Rewards and Fairies about?
It is a collection of historical tales told to two children, Dan and Una, in Sussex. Puck, an old spirit of England, calls up people from the past, and each story is followed by a poem.
Is Rewards and Fairies a sequel to Puck of Pook's Hill?
Yes. Kipling published Puck of Pook's Hill in 1906 and Rewards and Fairies in 1910. Both have the same children and Puck, and both mix historical stories with poems, though each can be read alone.
Which famous poem is in Rewards and Fairies?
If is printed in this book, after the story Brother Square-Toes. It is a poem of advice from a father to a son about courage, honesty and keeping a calm mind.
The author
Rudyard Kipling
1865–1936 · English novelist and poet
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English writer and poet born in Bombay, India. He lived in India, England and the United States. He wrote The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Kim (1901) and Just So Stories (1902). He died in London in 1936.
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