Muck and Magic Stories from the Countryside

A donation from each sale of this book will go to support the Farms for City Children project which enables children who may never have any first-hand experience of the countryside to have holidays and visits to working farms. It's a practical and unsentimental approach to environmental education and this book reflects that attitude. The wide variety of stories by some of the best of modern authors (each one with black-and-white line drawings from equally well-known illustrators) range from everyday, life to the supernatural, from the practical to the imaginative, and at no time is there a cuddly lamb, free-range hen and straw-in-the-hair view of the countryside. A number of the stories will stay in the reader's mind well after the book is finished and all will stand re-reading. Excellent for reading aloud to a younger junior class, it will nevertheless reward readers at the lower end of secondary school.