At last - this is the definitive guide to magic and enchantment: featuring magic-makers, shape-changing and other important spells, wishes and charms, bewitching, magical travel, and secret worlds. In addition, the book includes traditional folk tales and details magic traditions of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Norway, the Middle East, Africa, China, Japan, Korea and Native America.

 

There are 48 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2006 by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd .

Rosalind Kerven trained as an anthropologist and has edited and reviewed children's books for a number of years. She has written many collections of myths and legends, and several children's novels. She lives in Morpeth, Northumberland. Alan Marks studied art at Bath Academy in 1980 and has since illustrated over 20 children's picture books. Alan's first book, Storm, written by Kevin Crossley Holland, won the Carnegie Medal, and Ring a Ring o' Roses won the Bologna UNICEF Award. In 1996, Thomas and the Tinners was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize and The Thief's Daughter became National Curriculum recommended reading. He lives in Elmstone, Kent. Wayne Anderson has won the National Art Library Illustration Award, the Society of American Illusrators' Gold Medal and the Borders Original Voices Award.