'Praise for Short! 'Each [story is] a masterpiece of brevity and narrative skill''Carousel'. this is a brilliant book .'TES'. an espresso-cup collection which condenses the author's distinguished career as a reteller of folk-tales into bite-sized fables with a strong after-taste effect.'Literary Review'Praise for Kevin Crossley-Holland 'Crossley-Holland retells old folk tales better than anyone else alive.''Lynn Gardner, The Guardian'Praise for The Seeing Stone '.as bright and as vivid as pictures in a Book of Hours. Deep scholarship, high imagination, and great gifts of storytelling have gone into this; I was spellbound.

''Philip Pullman (Guardian Children's Book Supplement).