A Book of Magic Adventures

by Ruth Manning-Sanders, Robin Jacques (Illustrator)

In this collection of unusual fairy tales, the author invites the reader to travel far and wide—through magic adventures spanning several countries and crossing oceans to the remotest corners of the world—even to Hell and the domains of the Sun, Moon, and Wind. Against such backdrops are set tales of courage, bravery, and love. A farmer confronts a dragon with only a magic feather to help him. A fiddler, by his daring, delivers a repentant landowner from eternal torture by dancing devils. There are tales of bewitched princes and princesses, of ogreish trolls who must be slain, tales peopled by a host of goblins, dwarves, mannikins, wizards, witches, and magic animals of every kind.

126 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1983

About the author

Ruth Manning-Sanders, youngest daughter of an English minister, describes her childhood as “extraordinarily happy. . . with kind and understanding parents and any amount of freedom.” She read omnivorously, and she and her two sisters wrote and acted their own plays. A Shakespeare scholar at Manchester University, she later married Cornish artist George Manning-Sanders. They began married life in a horse drawn caravan, and traveled to all parts of the British Isles.
Mrs. Manning-Sanders has collected folk and fairy stories from around the world and she published more than 90 books during her lifetime.