Description "A delightful story about Fairyland . . .suitable both for adults to read to young children and for beginning readers to tackle themselves." Cork Examiner
"Reading this lovely fairytale, one hears Alice Taylor's own cadences in the rhythm of the language which combine with the superb illustrations to weave a special enchantment around this childhood fable. Highly recommended." Books Ireland
Author Alice Taylor is the biggest-selling author ever published in Ireland. Her first memoir of country life, To School Through the Fields, was published in 1988 and has become acknowledged internationally as a classic account of childhood; its sequels, Quench the Lamp, The Village, Country Days and The Night Before Christmas have also been bestsellers.
In 1997 her first novel, The Woman of the House, also established her as a bestselling novelist, and was followed in 1999 by a sequel, Across the River.
The biggest-bestseller ever published in Ireland, a universal classic of recollective writing which has been published in translation in many countries from Japan to Poland.
