A World Full of Nature Stories
50 Folktales and Legends
by Angela McAllister
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Pub Date 1 Mar 2022 | Archive Date 24 Mar 2022
Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books | Frances Lincoln Children's Books
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Description
This beautiful book of stories takes readers on a journey with 50 tales, featuring themes of nature from all around the world.
Sit back, get comfortable, and delve into this beautifully-illustrated collection of beloved nature stories from every corner of the globe.
This rich resource collects together folk tales from home and legends and myths from distant lands to commemorate the animals, plants, and the changing seasons that make planet Earth so beautiful.
The folktales and fables in this book will capture imaginations and take readers on a journey around the world. Learn about:
The Peruvian tale of Cuniraya and the Magic Fruit,
The story of how lightning began according to an ancient Khasi folk tale from India,
From Ireland, the story of The Bee, the Mouse, and the Beetle,
The Master of the Winds in the ancient Iroquois story of The Four Winds,
Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack from North American folklore, and
Spain's Queen of the Flowers, who is brought to life one night by a magical fairy.
Lively retellings from best-selling author Angela McAllister are brought to life with beautiful illustrations from Hannah Bess Ross, in this nature anthology to treasure for a lifetime. For story lovers young and old this is the perfect gift for all the family and nature lovers everywhere.
The World Full of… series is a collection of beautiful hardcover story treasuries. Discover folktales from all around the world or be introduced to some of the world’s best-loved writers with these stunning gift books, the perfection addition to any child’s library.
Also available from the series: A Year Full of Stories, A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories, A World Full of Dickens Stories, A World Full of Spooky Stories, A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals, and A Bedtime Full of Stories.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780711266452 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
Featured Reviews
Kirsteen A, Educator
This is a lovely book and one I would love to have in hard copy for my bookshelf. The stories are short and child friendly and very easy to read one each evening. Each story has a beautiful picture and is centred around nature. I'm currently teaching my children to love nature more so this book is making for some lovely bedtime stories. I love that the region of where the story comes from is clearly labelled.
James H, Educator
This is a great anthology of nature-themed short stories. They vary in length from one page to four, and some are more engaging than others. But there are a few absolute gems, and all are gorgeously illustrated.
Great resource for forest school and global folklore.
🌲🌍🌬❄☀️🌲
Roshni D, Reviewer
What a fabulous collection this is!!! 😍 😍 😍 Full of imagination and rich with folklore.
The book contains 50 stories all themed around nature. But don’t assume that these would be the typical stories about trees and flowers and importance of greenery. On the contrary, the stories are quite varied and most of them contain at least some element of magic, which is not surprising considering that the stories are from folktales and legends. They are grouped together in terms of the element of nature they focus on. Thus we have sections named “Flowers, Fruit and Seed”, “Wind and Weather”, “Creatures Great and Small”, “Sun, Moon and Stars”, “Lake, River and Ocean”, and so on. Almost every single one of the stories was new to me, and all of them were excellent.
The tales come from all over the world. While many books make this claim, this book actually delivers on the promise. Every single human-populated continent (Sorry, Antarctica!) is represented in the book, and the countries are as varied as Estonia and Iraq, Peru and Korea. It’s so good to see such diverse countries represented in this anthology.
I have read only one other anthology by this author before and that had surprised me by being so soothing on the soul. Now that this book matched up to the same high standards, I must say that I have turned into a huge fan of Angela McAllister and will try to grab everything she writes.
5 happy stars. Not to be read in one go but savoured slowly to maximise the impact.
My thanks to Quarto Publishing Group and NetGalley for the DRC of “A World Full of Nature Stories: 50 Folktales and Legends”. This review is voluntary and contains my honest opinion about the book.
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