A handsome, cocky young man is swept up by a dark horseman and cast into a life-or-death adventure. A pair of green children emerge from a remote hollow and struggle to adapt to a strange new land. A dauntless farm girl finds that her fearlessness earns her a surprising reward. Dark but often funny, lyrical yet earthy, the folktales presented here have influenced our landscape and culture. This definitive collection of forty-eight stories, retold by master storyteller and poet Kevin Crossley-Holland, opens a doorway to a lost world and shows the enduring power of language and imagination.
- ISBN: 9781536209419
- Published: 2019 , Candlewick Press (MA)
- Themes: Storytelling
- Descriptors: England (UK), Europe, Folklore and Fairy Tales, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Short Stories - Anthologies - Collections
- No. of pages: 352