The author of The Seeing Stone brings us these wonderful folk tales from all over Britain. This tape gives you ten stories of legends and enchantment from the book The Magic Lands. It includes the poetic Butterfly Soul; the amusing Mare's Eggs; Mossycoat, a version of the Cinderella story; The Baker's Daughter, which teaches a good lesson; the unusual tale of a seal made human in The Sea Woman; the Welsh story of The Three Blows; and Three Heads of the Well, where kindness is well rewarded.

 

This book is an anthology. This book was published 2002 by Orion Publishing Co .

Kevin Crossley-Holland is well-known as a poet, broadcaster, and writer for children. He won the Carnegie Medal in 1985. For Oxford, he has written The Green Children and adapted Beowulf for children.