The author of The Seeing Stone brings us these wonderful folk tales from all over Britain. This tape gives you stories of fairies and fabulous beasts from the book The Magic Lands. These include the strange disappearance of a horse in Charger, a fairy in a pudding in Dathera Dad, a domestic feline turned monarch in The King of the Cats, benevolent but also revengeful fairies in Monday, Tuesday, the destructive curse of The Lambton Worm and The Black Bull of Norway who is a knight in disguise...

 

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.