PARKINSON, Siobhán

While not an outstanding Christmas book, this is a beautiful addition to most collections.

Gr 4–8—Some of the best children's collections of Irish folklore, such as Seamus McManus's Hibernian Nights, Virginia Haviland's Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Ireland, and Malachy Doyle's Tales from Old Ireland, are out of print, which makes it especially disappointing that this effort by Irish Children's Laureate Parkinson has so little to recommend it...