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Author_Donald Smith
back yard
birds
botanical folk tales
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country estate
creator
enormous turnip
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fairy tales
fairytales
folk tales
folktales
garden
gardening
gardens
kissing a toad
legends
legends|Scottish International Storytelling Festival
myths
natural world
nature
plant folklore
plants
professional storyteller
Scotland's Garden Scheme
Scottish International Storytelling Festival
scottish storytelling centre
storytelling
tulips
woodland folk tales
Product details
- ISBN 9780750995689
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jul 2021
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
