Professor Abraham Van Der Helst starts a journey in search of the Legendary Fountain of Youth so as to cure a girl who has been changed into an old woman by the Devil . Witch Olga goes to Norse cosmos to kill the girl , Chronicler Freeman goes to Celtic lands to capsize the witch`s plan . Professor Helst interacts with Greek legendary creatures , places , objects and ultimately finds out the Supernatural Fountain and cures the girl . Once again she became young.
It's not every day a grumpy, injured centaur appears on your doorstep.When Yann clip clops into Helen's life looking for a horse healer she decides to help him even though she's not exactly a vet.And that's just the beginning. . . Helen's first aid kit comes in very handy when she meets Yann's friends -- a gang of fabled beasts with a habit of getting into trouble.Together Helen and the fabled beasts -- a fairy, a dragon, a phoenix, a werewolf and even a selkie -- must battle minotaurs, wrestle with wolves, fight faeries, solve riddles and travel the length and breadth of Scotland on a series of ever more dangerous quests.Enter the world of the Fabled Beasts in this exciting four-book fantasy adventure series.
The Realm of Faerie meets Toy Story in the second installment of a larger than life saga involving a village of vinyl trolls who are livelier than their humans realize. The trolls attempt to rescue two of their own from a vengeful enchantment set up by a faery with inimical intentions who emerges from their past. Some other inhabitants of faerie help the trolls as they dodge the odds of being caught, by humans or their more unsavory enemy. Some surprising lessons are learned, some great feats undertaken by those who doubt and those who've never known doubt. Kinship and camaraderie rule, and the trolls persevere against the odds by holding the heart's wisdom as their most unerring guide. Not just for children, this book will delight all who enjoy magical "what-ifs".
Vol 2 edited by Warwick Gould, John Kelly, Deirdre Toomey Vol 3 edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard Includes bibliographical references and index v 1 1865-1895 -- only held v 2 1896-1900 -- v 3 1901-1904.
Tolkien's concern with time - past and present, real and faerie - captures the wonder of travel into other worlds and other times. This work shows that he was not just a mythmaker and writer of escapist fantasy but a man whose relationship to his own century was troubled and critical.