"The story of the origins of the Earth. Eric Maddern takes the reader on a journey from the enormous bang at the beginning of the universe, through to the very first forms of life on our plan
The first man and woman are lonely. What to do? They decide to fashion children out of clay. As they are baking the little figures in their fire, they're constantly interrupted by visits from the sky
Old King Karnak is worried. He doesn’t have long to live, and there is no heir to the throne. To find one, the King holds an unusual competition. Knights and lords flock to the palace and the King giv
A traveler in the forest stops at a lonely cottage, hoping to beg a bed for the night. The scowling woman who answers the door agrees to let him sleep on the floor, but declares she hasn’t a bi
Shon begins to feel like he does all the hard work out in the fields, so he and his wife, Sian, switch jobs for the day, in this story based on an English folktale.
When Jack meets Old Man Death coming towards his cottage, he realises at once what's up. "You're not taking my old mother!" he cries, and hits out at Death with his fists. With each punch, Death gets
The first man and woman are lonely. What to do? They decide to fashion children out of clay. As they are baking the little figures in their fire, they're constantly interrupted by visits from the sky-
When Jack stands up to Old Man Death and stuffs him into the shell of a hazelnut, he thinks he has done a good thing, but he soon finds out a powerful lesson about life and death, in a story based on
Trees are symbols of life itself. We cut them down at our peril. Here is a leafy anthology of 12 traditional tales from all over the earth's surface, from Native North America to New Guinea and from W
