{"product_id":"the-watkins-book-of-english-folktales-isbn-9781786787095","title":"The Watkins Book of English Folktales","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis comprehensive, entertaining and authentic collection of English folktales is perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Philip Pullman and the Brothers Grimm.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art – when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o’-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs. Find “Jack the Giantkiller”, “Tom Tit Tot” and other quintessentially English favourites, alongside interesting borrowings, such as an English version of the Grimms’ “Little Snow White” – as well as bedtime frighteners, including “Captain Murderer”, as told to Charles Dickens by his childhood nurse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeil Philip has provided a full introduction and source notes on each story that illustrate each tale’s journey from mouth to page, and what has happened to them on the way. These tales rank among the finest English short stories of all time in their richness of metaphor and plot and their great verbal dash and daring.\"A treasure-trove of living stories, and enormously fun to read. Enjoy!\" - \u003cb\u003eNeil Gaiman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shivery, creepy, melancholy, funny, fantastic and very real ... Neil Philip’s classic collection offers us an overflowing cauldron of marvellous stories.’ - \u003cb\u003eMarina Warner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Collections of folktales as good as this should be bound in gold and brought out on ceremonial occasions as national treasures.\" - \u003cb\u003ePhilip Pullman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The generally admitted and admired glories of English literature rest on a much more neglected popular tradition of story-telling. This collection brings that tradition back to life, in a wonderfully accessible form.\" - \u003cb\u003eProfessor Ronald Hutton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A book that inspires and informs, and opens hearts and minds to our story heritage.' - \u003cb\u003eProfessor Carolyne Larrington\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A profound influence on me and Hookland.\" - \u003cb\u003eDavid Southwell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the best collection of English folktales.\" - \u003cb\u003eProfessor Diane Purkiss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A superb anthology of more than one hundred extraordinary tales that reveal the exquisite nature of the English storytelling tradition. This is a dazzling book.\" - \u003cb\u003eProfessor Jack Zipes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Never was a better time for such a knowing, appreciative volume of our shared tales.\" - \u003cb\u003eGregory Maguire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An expertly chosen selection of English folktales that is highly readable, endlessly entertaining, and intellectually enlivened. If by some mysterious goblin’s spell I was condemned to give away all the books in my library but one, this is undoubtedly the book I would keep.\" - \u003cb\u003eProfessor Andrew Teverson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Buckle up and prepare for close encounters with ghouls and boggarts, witches and merry-maids, talking cats and roaring bulls.\" - \u003cb\u003eProfessor Maria Tatar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A truly beautiful collection of over one hundred English stories . . . collated with true wonder and love for the magic of storytelling.\" - \u003cb\u003eLoveReading, starred book\u003c\/b\u003eNeil Philip is a writer, folklorist and poet. Among his many books are \u003ci\u003eThe Cinderella Story, Mythology\u003c\/i\u003e (with Philip Wilkinson),\u003ci\u003eThe New Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The Tale of Sir Gawain\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Odysseus.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Neil has contributed to numerous journals, including \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSignal: Approaches to Children's Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and has also written for stage, screen and radio. His work has won the Aesop Award of the American Folklore Society and the Literary Criticism Book Award of the Children's Literature Association.","brand":"Watkins Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301240525029,"sku":"NP9781786787095","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781786787095.jpg?v=1767742146","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-watkins-book-of-english-folktales-isbn-9781786787095","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}