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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.

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Kevin Crossley-Holland is a Carnegie Medal-winning author and a well-known poet. He is the author of the Arthur trilogy, including The Seeing Stone, which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, as well as Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki. He currently resides on the north Norfolk coast in England. David Shaw-Parker trained at RADA and began his career at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since then, he has frequently appeared on stage, including in London's West End and at The National Theatre. In addition to stage work, he has numerous television and film credits, including Endeavour, Victoria, The Crown, Kafka, and The Muppets' Christmas Carol. As a voiceover artist, he records radio dramas and audiobooks regularly.

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