Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

Margo Lanagan is my guest today to talk about selkies and the inspiration for her book 'The Brides of Rollrock Island' .   I ca...

Of all the underwater peoples, the selkies – the seal people – have the closest connection with human beings.  You’ve only to go out...

By Jane Yolen Red Riding Hood and the Wolf by Tyler Garrison A number of years ago, folklorist Alan Dundes coined the ter...

Robert Kirk, born about 1644, was the seventh son of a Scottish minister and became a minister himself, well known for translating the psalm...

by SALLY PRUE We didn’t lack books in my childhood home. I mean, we had a Bible, a Be-Ro cookery book, David Copperfield, Shakespe...

"COME, dear children, let us away;             Down and away below.     Now my brothers call from the bay;     Now the great wind...

I like stories about watermills. A watermill figured largely in my first two books, ‘Troll Fell’ and ‘Troll Mill’, and if you think about i...