Blut and Boden & A Race for the North: Fairy Tales for Children of European Descent

Get the classic books Blut and Boden and A Race for the North in one handsome volume! Ethnic stories for all children of European descent that instill pride and inspire imagination. History and legend, mythical and not-so-mythical creatures rub shoulders in this saga of the powers that have forged our people.

Blut and Boden: Frost and fire, sea and storm, the forces that have shaped the face of the earth, become personified in beings of terrifying power: the devouring powers of chaos the myths call Giants. Grim Jack, leader of the Frost Giants, begins an Ice Age as glaciers move across North America. His goal: the annihilation of the Elves, who order and shape nature into works of beauty. Boden, orphaned elf-prince of a kingdom besieged, flees across the sea to Europe, only to discover the same endless winter, and an enemy even more terrifying.

But there he also meets the Elf-princess Blut, whose beauty the very earth tries to imitate, and for her love he takes on his greatest challenge yet. Together, they find help in an unlikely place: a new race of man being forged in the snowy North. Facing unimaginable hardship, their features carved like the glaciers around them, this unique people will come to resemble the elves inside and out. With endless creative power, an indomitable will, and the mystery that lies within Blut herself, they will carve out a homeland through valor and perseverance.

Possessing gifts from Elves and Dwarves alike, this race of explorers, inventors, and artists will set out across the seas, even to the sunset lands Boden once knew, but a New World to them. But there lies an ancient evil that threatens to undo it all in one terrible act, unleashing forgetfulness and self-loathing upon an unsuspecting people.

Blood. Soil. Memory. Tradition. Come join the quest with Blut and Boden.

A Race for the North:

The long-awaited sequel to Blut and Boden! Return to the world of Elves, Dwarves, and Giants, which turns out to be our very own, in a seamless blend of history and myth.

The story begins with the expedition of Sir John Franklin to discover the Northwest Passage, in the last frontier – the frozen Arctic. There he discovers someone in dire need of his help – and an ancient force determined to stop him. Thousands of miles away, young Karl Marx has an otherworldly encounter in a library, with dire consequences for mankind. And a young boy named Arthur leaves the hellish conditions of an English factory to undertake a quest for a sword…

Witness the dawning of the modern world, and the frantic efforts to awaken the spirit of our Folk to face its challenges. Children will delight in the quest to find what is heroic within themselves, and adults will never look at history the same way again.

Reading level: Blut and Boden, 10 and up; A Race for the North, 12 and up