folk literature

"In The King of Birds, a quarrel between a mouse and a sparrow over a golden apple leads to a civil war. In The Water Spirit, an unwitting merchant is tested and tricked by powerful creature. Then it's a race against time in Tyna of the Lake as a young boy must find a willing ally to help escape a water doom"--Back cover.

" . . . assembles a collection of supernatural creatures in all shapes and sizes, each with their own unique back story. Some are well-known, others obscure. The one thing they all have in common is that they are creepiest and weirdest of the bunch!"--Back cover.

Presents a collection over seventy Irish stories including The Kildare Pooka, The Trooping Fairies, Changelings, and more.

Contains tales and a few poems from Ireland, including legends of ghosts, fairies, witches, priests, and saints.

"Presents fifty of the very first adventure stories, set out across seven sections, featuring Heroes and Heroines; Epic Battles; Magical Events and Miracles; Villains, Crime and Murder; Quests and Journeys; Animal stories; and Love Stories. Ranging from long and complex epics developed around historical figures including Charlemagne, King Arthur and Alexander the Great, to smaller, vibrant tales absorbing local characters on the periphery. Featuring both the stories and art behind Merlin, Christine de Pisan, Sir Gawain, Renard the Fox, Dante and Beatrice, the Odyssey, Saint Brendon and Tristan and Isolde, this book provides an intimate insight into the medieval mind. [The author} has used her profound knowledge of the British Library's illuminated manuscript collections to explore some of literature's . . . celebrated stories, together with the deep history of the books and chronicles in which they were first preserved. Presented alongside them in full color are some. . . examples of art to survive from the 8th to the 16th centuries: works of supreme beauty inspired by the stories"--OCLC.

"In this Indian folktale, a young turtle shares a shallow lake with unlikely friends - two geese. But when the lake starts drying up, the stubborn turtle must follow his winged friend's advice, or he'll be left out to dry"--Publisher.

"In this Swedish folktale, a young boy longs for all the nice things other children have. An old woman tells the boy a secret for granting wishes: sprinkling salt on a magpie's tail. Bit, before the magpie will grant the boy's wish, the bird has some strange requests of his own"--Publisher.

"In this Chinese folktale, a woman spends years weaving, day and night, until one day she reveals a magical cloth. But moments later, the cloth mysteriously disappears! Now her three young sons must set out on a long, mystical journey to find it"--Publisher.

"In this Irish folktale, a young and powerful king, has an embarrassing secret: he has horse's ears! Then one day the royal barber discovers this unusual trait. Can he keep the king's long-held secret, or will the barber be banished form the kingdom for good?"--Publisher.

Lost in the woods, a tired and hungry girl finds the house of the three bears where she helps herself to food and goes to sleep.