Lisa Schneidau

A really fun little book. Some tales I knew, some I didn’t. I liked the stories better than the introduction to the stories.

Oral tales always suffer a bit when translated to text, in my opinion. These stories, while charming enough, fall into that pattern.

A magical collection of short stories that all have to do with plants in one way or another. The author re-wrote the old folk tales and for the most part I think she did a good job. There were a few that ended abruptly, but I'm sure that those particular tales were sparse to begin with.

I enjoyed the previous book, Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland , more. This book was fun though. I don’t read a lot of short stories and I think I was getting tired of them by the end.