Tanglewood Tales

A ruined summer house, six inches of snow, and a young storyteller who thinks the broken boughs look like magic: Eustace Bright has brought six new tales—and his editor is not sure children are ready for them.

During winter vacation, Eustace visits his friend’s hillside cottage with fresh stories for the children who beg him to tell them more. Their source is ancient Greek myth: a world of heroes, gods, monsters, and legends shadowed by grief and misfortune. How can such tales be made fit for young listeners without losing their wonder? Eustace believes that, told with a child’s imagination, even the darkest old fables can recover the brightness of the world’s first stories. What will these legends become when he tells them his way?

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