Shropshire Folk Tales for Children

Shropshire Folk Tales for Children gathers thirty traditional stories rooted in the county’s landscape, history and oral storytelling traditions. Amy Douglas retells tales of giants, ghosts, witches, kings, knights and monster fish for children aged seven to eleven, with illustrations by Sal McD.

The stories range from the giant associated with the Wrekin to legends connected with Shrewsbury, mixing magic, battles, cunning characters and macabre incidents. Some feature defiant girls, one-armed ghosts, people-eating giants and buried treasure, while others draw on the way local communities have remembered their places and past. Douglas presents these inherited tales in an accessible form while retaining their darker edges and sense of spoken storytelling.