This collection of folktales, songs, lullabies, and blessings from Celtic Lands - with two storytime CDs read by Niamh Cusack - draws on the oral traditions of Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Brittany to summon up an ancestral world suffused by everyday magic. The stories feature supernatural events, birds that talk, enchanted wells, and many strange transformations in the fortunes of their characters through the agency of those ancient spirits of place. The book is beautifully produced with attractive full-colour artwork, pages bordered with decorative knotwork motifs, an introductory essay on the Celtic world and an afterword with notes on sources.