Books with author Holland K Crossley

The Norse myths are second only to the Greek myths in their greatness and power, and these stories of giants striding across the Nordic landscape, of stallions pulling the sun's chariot, of the trickster Loki's shapeshifting, of the slaying of monsters and the passions, squabbles and betrayals of gods and goddesses, are magnificent to read. They are selected and slightly adapted from 'The Penguin Book of Norse Myths', Kevin Crossley-Holland's definitive collection of retellings.

This collection is a celebration of diversity. There are tales from Asia and India, Central and South America, North America and the Pacific. Through marvellous stories of emperors, princesses, dragons, fishes and birds, we see the fabulous variety of customs and beliefs in our world.* This collection forms a pair with The Nightingale that Shrieked* The stories in the two collections were originally published together in The Young Oxford Book of Folk Tales

In this collection of very short stories, none of the stories is more than two pages long, and some are much shorter. There are stories about ghosts, supermarkets, animals, adventures, and all kinds of things.Kevin Crossley-Holland is an established writer who has produced a number of books for OUP, and this is a short and sharp colleciton of funny, intriguing, and scary stories.