The Fairies' Ring

by Yolen, Jane; Mackey, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780525460459
• ISBN10: 0525460454
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Summary

A collection of poems by such writers as Robert Graves, William Shakespeare, and Walter de la Mare and tales from around the world about fairies in all their forms.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 4
I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child	p. 6
Thomas the Rhymer a tale from Scotland	p. 9
The Queen of the Fay	p. 17
Fairies	p. 18
The Peri Wife a tale from Persia	p. 21
Catching Fairies	p. 25
The Fairy Midwife a tale from England	p. 27
The Fairies	p. 30
The Fee's Changeling a Norman tale from France	p. 33
The Fairies' Dance	p. 35
Queen Mab	p. 36
The Fairies Banished a tale from Wales	p. 39
Fairy Song	p. 41
The Stolen Child	p. 42
The Faery Flag a tale from Scotland	p. 45
Dreams Within Dreams	p. 55
The Three Fairies of Sandy Batoum a tale from Greece	p. 57
The Fountain of the Fairies	p. 65
The Stolen Wife a Maori tale from New Zealand	p. 67
The Fairy Musicians	p. 71
Flower Fairies	p. 72
The Tailor's Treasure a Breton tale from France	p. 75
Where to Find Fairies	p. 77
Three Short Welsh Fairy Stories	p. 78
The Lost Spear a tale from southern Africa	p. 81
The Ruin	p. 87
Angus Mor and the Fairies a tale from Scotland	p. 89
Over Hill, Over Dale	p. 93
Source Notes	p. 94
Bibliography	p. 96
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