The White Horse of Zennor and Other Stories

In this reissue collection of older stories, master British storyteller and Children’s Laureate Morpurgo spins tales of gentle fantasy, otherworldly transformations, kind deeds, and just rewards. Set on the Cornwall coast in the tiny town of Zennor, one story tells of a little girl lost at sea who encounters some old tin miners of the last century. In another yarn, a great white horse appears to rescue a farm from ruin after the farmer’s children do a good deed for a “little person” known as a Knocker. The last story of Mad Miss Marney hints, in a delightful twist, that the kindhearted but misunderstood Miss Marney, assumed to be a witch, has actually concocted the previous stories. Wonderful read-alouds, the lyrical style and fable-like plots of these tales pay tribute to the power of imaginative storytelling.