Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

by Jane Rosenberg LaForge A combination of “Beauty and the Beast” and “Cinderella’’, with an equal part of “The Cat-Skin’’ and ...

  I was reminded by Celia Rees’s post on Blodeuedd, the girl who was changed into an owl, of this haunting fairytale collected by the Broth...

Oral storytelling necessitates a framework.  Anyone who’s tried singing or storytelling or in any way performing, for that’s what it is, in ...

Candy Gourlay was a young journalist writing for the opposition during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.  After the...

So you're looking for an author who writes adventure stories – and I mean adventures – with brilliant main characters who more often tha...

When Sally Prue’s first novel, ‘ Cold Tom ’ won the Branford Boase Award and the Smarties Prize Silver Award in 2002, it was clear that a wo...