Folk Tales from The Garden

by Donald Smith

Overview

The garden is an oasis, a pocket of nature in our busy modern lives, full of plants, animals, insects – and a fair bit of magic.

Folk Tales from the Garden follows the seasons through a year of stories, garden lore and legends. Explore the changing face of nature just outside your front door, from the tale of the Creator painting her birds and the merits of kissing an old toad, to pixies sleeping in the tulips, and an unusually large turnip.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750995689
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	02/01/2022
Series:	Folk Tales
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Donald Smith is an accomplished storyteller in a variety of media from fiction to digital, live stage and spoken word. He has produced, adapted or directed over 100 plays, and published a series of novels on turning points in Scottish history. He has also written a series of non-fiction books on Scottish culture including Storytelling Scotland (2001). He is a lead author in the series Journeys and Evocations, celebrating local storytelling traditions across Britain and Ireland. He is a founding member of the Scottish Storytelling Forum, Edinburgh’s Guid Crack Club and is currently Chief Executive of TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland) which brings together Scotland’s traditional arts, as well Director of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Calendar of Stories 7

January 11

Twelve Months 11

Bringing in the Year 24

Ranting Roving Robin 26

February 30

First and Last 32

Town Mouse and Country Mouse 35

Rat and Weasel 38

March 41

Clever Crow, Wily Fox 44

Tim Vole 48

Fussv Wren 51

April 55

Cherry Blossom 58

Paradise Regained 62

The Tulip Pixies 65

May 68

The Marriage of Bride 73

Poppy May or Thumbelina 74

Five Queens 85

June 90

Say it with Flowers 92

A Midsummer Dream? 94

Not Kissing the Frog 98

July 104

Jack and the Magic Beans 107

Fruit of Love 113

Beauty and the Rose 116

August 127

Mr McGregor's Garden 130

A Bride for Mole 132

The Butterfly that Stamped 135

September 146

Grian and Auld Goggie 148

Bird or Beast? 153

King of the East, King of the West 155

October 161

Apple Girl 164

Home or Away 167

Halloween Walking 170

November 175

Traveller Soup 177

The Enormous Turnip 181

Evergreen 184

December 188

Donald and Mary 192

The Green Knight 196

Robin Redbreast and Jenny Wren 202