Description

							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.