Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales
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On the front of BfK for March is the cover of The War of Jenkins' Ear by Michael Morpurgo - who is the subject of this month's Authorgraph. The artwork is by Anthony Kerins and we are grateful to Reed Children's Books for their help in using this illustration.
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An enjoyable collection, peopled with brownies, selkies, kelpies, giants and fairies. Well-known tales and ballad adaptations such as 'Tam Lin' and 'Thomas the Rhymer' are combined with more recent additions from John Buchan and Alasdair MacLean. Fluent readers will be able to cope with the lot, including the substantial Victorian story by Andrew Lang, 'The Gold of Fairnilee'; for the less confident, or for reading aloud, there are plenty of shorter tales to sample.
