Peter Stevenson

My Big Book of Fairytales

Kitten Tales for Bedtime

"Driving Forces tells the human story of men, their women, and their machines that made the German dominance of 1930s and Grand Prix Racing possible.

The Grand Prix Racing World Caught in the Maelstrom of the Third Reich

Driving Forces

Sarah Todd Taylor

Tomos is not having a good time on the school trip. The class bully has taken his lunch and the teachers are fed up with him always getting in trouble. When he falls down a hole and wakes the sleeping King Arthur, this seems like his chance to please his Arthur-mad teacher and finally win at something. But Arthur is not the hero he's learned about in class. He's nervous and all knights pick on him. And then there is the Chicken of Doom.

Arthur and Me

Four finger puppets are included with this board book that also doubles as a puppet stage. Readers can act out the story of the princess who sleeps on a tower of mattresses, only to be disturbed by a tiny pea underneath. Full-color illustrations. Consumable.

The Princess and the Pea

A lone man wanders from swamp to swamp searching for himself, a wolf-girl visits Wales and eats the sheep, a Welsh criminal marries an 'Indian Princess', Lakota men re-enact the Wounded Knee Massacre in Cardiff and, all the while, mountain women practise Appalachian hoodoo, native healing and Welsh witchcraft. These stories are a mixture of true tales, tall tales and folk tales, that tell of the lives of migrants who left Wales and settled in America, of the native and enslaved people who had long been living there, and those curious travellers who returned to find their roots in the old country. They were explorers, miners, dreamers, hobos, tourists, farmers, radicals, showmen, sailors, soldiers, witches, warriors, poets, preachers, prospectors, political dissidents, social reformers, and wayfaring strangers. The Cherokee called them: 'the Moon-Eyed People.'

Folk Tales from Welsh America

The Moon-Eyed People

A Far Cry from Noah

Kath Davies

Retells the orchestral fairy tale of the boy who, ignoring his grandfather's warning, proceeds to capture a wolf.

Peter and the Wolf

Photographs, working plans, and stepby-step instructions illuminate the art of creating original wooden toys for children

The Art of Making Wooden Toys

This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honours unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales. They reflect the diverse tradition of storytelling, and the many meanings of ‘chwedlau’. If someone says, ‘Chwedl Cymraeg?’ they are asking, ‘Do you speak Welsh?’ and ‘Do you tell a tale in Welsh?’ Here is the root of storytelling, or ‘chwedleua’, in Wales. It is part of conversation. This book, one to linger over and to treasure, keeps these ancient tales alive by retelling them for a new audience.

Welsh Folk Tales

Little-known folk tales from Welsh settlements in America: a colonial history told through stories from Welsh, American and Native cultures

Ceredigion is a land shaped by mythology, where mermaids and magic mix with humans and where ordinary people achieveextraordinary things. This is a captivating collection of traditional and modern stories, including the submerged city of Cantre’r Gwaelod, or the ‘Welsh Atlantis’, how the Devil came to build a bridge over the Rheidol, the elephant that died in Tregaron, and how the Holy Grail came to Nanteos. All the while the tylwyth teg (the Welsh fairies) and changelings run riot through the countryside. Storyteller and illustrator Peter Stevenson takes us on a tour of a county steeped in legend, encountering ghosts, witches and heroes at every turn.

Ceredigion Folk Tales

Libro-regalo con 64 cuentos especialmente indicados para padres que tengan poco tiempo, ya que cada historia puede leerse en apenas 3 minutos. Ambientados en el escenario de una granja, los cuentos están protagonizados por distintos animales domésticos: gatos, perros, caballos, gallinas, vacas, pavos, cerditos, burros, patos... Historias sencillas y divertidas, acompañadas de simpáticas ilustraciones a todo color para que los niños se recreen en su contemplación mientras escuchan el relato corto que se les está narrando.

Cuentos diminutos para contar en 3 minutos

The Grimms called them The Quiet Folk, in Māori they are Patupaiarehe, in Wales Y Tylwyth Teg: hidden people who live unseen, speak their own languages and move around like migrants, shrouded from our eyes – like those who lived in the utopian world of Plant Rhys Ddwfn off the west Welsh coast, where this book begins. In mythology, lost lands are coral castles beneath the sea, ancient forests where spirits live, and mountain swamps where trolls lurk. Strip away the mythology, and they become valleys and villages flooded to provide drinking water to neighbouring kingdoms, campsites where travellers are told they can’t travel, and reservations where the rights of first nations people are ignored. The folk tales in this book tell of these lost lands and hidden people, remembered through migrations, dreams and memories.

Peter Stevenson

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