Neil Philip

This collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English-language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense and are presented in nine sections: Poems of Childhood and Youth Poems of Love and Marriage Poems of Life Poems of Loss and Comfort Poems of War and Peace...

This sparkling collection of fairy tales captures the true spirit of Christmas—a mixture of magic, fantasy and joy. It opens with Hans Andersen's moving story, The Book of Fairy Tales, and also features two other Andersen tales, The Fir Tree, and The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree, specially translated for this edition. Ruth Sawyer's joyous Schnitzle, Schnotzle, and...

The Little Mermaid is one of the most haunting love stories ever written. Its author, Hans Christian Andersen, is a master storyteller whose tales have withstood the test of time and have been shared across borders and languages. In this sparkling anthology, 17 of his creations are enchantingly retold for children today by Neil Philip. Many of his most popular...

The world's great fables, sagas, and legends dramatically retold. Myths are the greatest stories ever told. Passed down over millennia, they are the templates for all our stories, with their eternal themes of creation and destruction, fate and cunning, heroism and cruelty, sensuality and war. Retold here are nearly 200 myths—from Prometheus defying Zeus to create man to the destruction...