Neil Philip Boeken

A retelling of sixteen of the enthralling stories by a renowned folklorist, including Aladdin and Ali Baba, with evocative illustrations by Sheila Moxley.

An enthralling collection of fairy tales from all over the globe, with entrancing illustration that conjure up magical worlds where wishes come true, the wicked are punished, and the good are rewarded spectacularly.

A new collection of Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales. There are 12 stories which include old favourites such as The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea and The Snow Queen, as well as some less well known tales such as The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep and The Shadow.

A wonderful collection of twenty-two fairy tales that draw on the classic folklore of Eastern Europe - stories of romance and adventure, love and deceit, walking houses and flying ships, with evocative illustrations by Larry Wilkes.

A festive collection of classic seasonal stories, retold by a renowned folklorist, and beautifully illustrated with intricate paintings by Isabelle Brent.

The Celts are among the greatest storytellers in the world, and this volume collects some of the finest tales once told around the Celtic hearthside - a cornucopia of wonder and delight. Besides generous selections from Ireland and Scotland, there are stories from Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany and Galicia - and in his introduction Neil Philip pursues the Celtic story to its newer homes in the United States, Cape Breton, Newfoundland and Australia. The twenty stories include The Ship That Went to America, The King of Ireland's Son, Stories of Sion Cent, Duffy and the Devil and The Black Cat. The book is illustrated throughout by Isabelle Brent's magical watercolours, lavishly embellished with gold leaf, making this handsome volume a book the whole family will treasure.

This highly accessible collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense and are presented in nine sections: Poems of Childhood and Youth; Poems of Love and Marriage; Poems of Life; Poems of Loss and Comfort; Poems of War and Peace; Poems to Read Aloud; Poems to Read Quietly; Poems of Animals and Nature and Poems of Magic and Mystery. The anthology includes works by William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Robert Burns, T S Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, W B Yeats and many, many more. The poems have all been chosen and arranged by Neil Philip and the volume is illustrated throughout with watercolour borders and decorative motifs by Isabelle Brent, glowing with her trademark gold leaf.

Surveys the treatment of gods, goddesses, the heavens, creation, death, and evil as expressed in various mythologies around the world. Here is an intriguing and captivating introduction to the culturally diverse world of mythology. Photographs of masks, jewelry, and sculptures offer a unique view of mythology and its gods, heroes, and monsters.

THE BOOK OF FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF IRELAND, compiled by W.B. Yeats from various sources is bursting with tall tales of fairy folk and their ways. Yeats has brought together the work of the best Irish folklorists, including Lady Wilde and Douglas Hyde. These stories recreate a mystical vanished world, where banshees and leprechauns, changelings and bewitched animals live alongside mortal men and women.

Magical tales of enchantment and transformation, with context notes and gorgeous Mexican folk art-inspired illustrations by Jacqueline Mair.