May the road rise up to meet you...The best of Irish storytelling is packed into this captivating collection. Seventeen stunning tales feature characters as wild and wonderful as giants, both selfish and shrinking, flying grandmothers, mysterious carriages, ghosts and of course leprechauns! The collection is crammed with contributions from wellknown authors, including Oscar Wilde, Patricia Lynch, Eamon Kelly, Edna O'Brien and Frank Murphy. Capturing all that's strange and wonderful about the land of saints and scholars, this collection will be loved by young readers.

 

This book is part of a book series called Kingfisher Treasury Of Stories .

There are 160 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2005 by Pan Macmillan .

James Riordan has written many books for children, including many translations of Russian tales. His Peter and the Wolf is published in cloth and paperback by Oxford.

This book has the following chapters: The Man with No Story - Retold by James Riordan; The Story of the First Greyhound - Marjorie Quarton; The Flying Display - Tony Hickey; The Leprechaun - Edna O'Brien; Petie Flimin and the Whale - Eamon Kelly; Neilly and the Fir-Tree - John O'Connor; Una and the Giant Cucullin - Retold by James Riordan; The Four Magpies - Sigerson Clifford; Biddy's Birthday - Martin Waddell; The Fox and the Hedgehog - Michael Scott; Jack O'Lantern - Retold by James Riordan; Last Bus for Christmas - Patricia Lynch; Traffic Jam - Frank Murphy; Poor Banshee - Michael Killey; The Selfish Giant - Oscar Wilde; Magus the Lollipop Man - Michael Mullen; Munachar and Manachar - Retold by James Riordan.