Description
Book SynopsisDrawn from Lia Leendertz''s bestsellingThe Almanaccomes a compilation of stories and songs that celebrate the activities and festivities of the seasons. Featuring mischievous boggarts, saints and sailors, leprechauns and dragons, pilgrimages and charms, add a little magic to your journey through each year. A Year in Story and Songis a captivating collection of stories and songs that celebrates the seasons.
We humans love stories. We love to hear them and to tell them,around fires and by bedsides, and we love to use them to makesense of the world around us.
The seasons, in all their ever-changingvariety, give us many opportunities for storytelling: the full moons andtheir names, Epiphany in January, St Patrick''s Day in March,May Day, Midsummer, Halloween and more. They featuremischievous boggarts and fairies, saints and sailors, leprechaunsand dragons, pilgrimages and charms, milk maids and rosequeens, Robin Hood and the green man. The songs range fromshanties and love songs, to bawdy ballads and wassails, to carolsand rounds, and have been sung for hundreds of years, oftenat particular moments in the calendar.
A beautiful gift for old and young, as well as anindispensible month by month guide to songs and stories, this is a book to treasure all year, every year.
