He loves sailing and anything to do with ships. In Greenwitch, he is jealous of Will because Merriman brought him to Cornwall for "unnecessary" reasons, but eventually warms to him. In Over Sea, Under Stone, Simon and Barney are the two to go into the cave and retrieve the Grail. Simon Drew: Simon is the eldest of the Drews.Their surname is linked with Will Stanton's in British paleohistory see Stanton Drew stone circles. In the poem featured prominently throughout The Dark Is Rising, they are the ones referred to as "three from the track". They also appear in the third book, Greenwitch, and the last book in the series, Silver on the Tree. In the first novel, Over Sea, Under Stone, they search for the legendary Grail of King Arthur. While on a holiday in Cornwall, they get caught up in the battle between the Light and the Dark and join the search for the Things of Power. Simon, Jane, and Barnabas Drew: The main characters of the first novel, the Drew family, are human children who have known Merriman Lyon as their "Great Uncle Merry" for years. Its 2007 film adaptation, titled The Seeker in America and The Dark Is Rising in Britain, made significant plot and character divergences from the book. it was a Newbery Honor Book (runner up for the medal). The novel The Dark Is Rising features Will Stanton, age 11, who learns on that birthday that he is one of an ancient magical people called "Old Ones", and is destined to wield the powers of The Light in the ancient struggle with The Dark. The concluding Silver on the Tree (1977) also won the annual Tir na n-Og Award.
Volume four, The Grey King (1975), won both the Newbery Medal, recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children", and the inaugural Tir na n-Og Award for English-language books with Welsh background. The sequels were published 1973 to 1977, almost simultaneously in the U.K. publication by Jonathan Cape of Over Sea, Under Stone. Both magical and ordinary children are prominent throughout the 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. The Dark Is Rising Sequence is used as an over-arching title in several omnibus, boxed-set, and coordinated editions but the title of The Dark is Rising is also used for the whole series. The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising. The Dark Is Rising 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.
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