Mary, Joseph, Robert, and William, four generations of Cheshire children, make exhilarating discoveries exploring a cave, standing up to a grandfather, climbing a ladder, and ridig a sled.

Examines, through brief stories that offer solutions, some of the problems of drug abuse and offers advice to parents on how to use these stories to help their children.

Tells the stories of dwarfs, giants, magic stones, an enchanted bull, a magic coat, a beautiful princess, ghosts, murders, and witches

Engages everyone who can hear the voices of the characters on the page.

Four new and wholly original stories, each evoking the themes and tempo of traditional fairy tales, are highlighted on every page by full-color paintings

Product Description: In "The Lad of the Gad", Alan Garner has reworked five stories from the Gaelic layers of British folktale. Folk and fairy tales have not always been relegated to children, and older readers will appreciate Garner's ability to give these stories a new vitality for our time...read more

When William's sled is taken, his grandfather, a smith, uses an old oak loom to build him another one which he takes to the top of a high hill where nobody ever dares to go

Robert learns that his secret place has another secret the day his soldier uncle comes home to help with the corn harvest.

When Mary asks for a book, her stonemason father takes her deep into the quarry hill where prehistoric carvings and tracings and the countless footprints of her ancestors evoke the mysteries of the past and of life

Forty-two tales, legends, and poems from various countries, including Japan, India, and North America, about giants, goblins, demons, and other supernatural creatures.