Shropshire Folk Tales for Children

Do you know that there are mermaids in Shropshire? How about giants? Or highwaymen?

Shropshire is full of myths, legends and magical creatures.

Under every rock lurks a fortune-telling toad; heroes lie sleeping beneath the hills; and there are still hoardes of treasure waiting to be found.

In this new collection professional storyteller and author Amy Douglas retells some of Shropshire's best stories, the ones that were so good they have been told father-to-daughter and mother-to-son - and always remembered.

Auteur

AMY DOUGLAS is a professional storyteller and award-winning author. She loves Shropshire's rich diversity of folklore and has been researching, learning and performing it for most of her life. Much of her work has been and is with children, in both educational and entertainment settings. She is the author of Shropshire Folk Tales, published by The History Press in 2011.

Texte du rabat

This is a children's book. But it is for real children. It is a book of buried treasure, people-eating giants, sleeping kings and a monster fish. There's fire, wee, milk and missing body parts. It's a book that's got the bits adults don't like left in. These are stories of Shropshire. They are old and wild, like the land itself. If you like giants having their heads lopped off, girls who won't do what they're told, knights fighting with lances, one-armed ghosts and grumpy witches, then this is the book for you.