We craft and tell stories because we’ve stood on the uncertain edge between the waking world and our imagination, between enchantment and fear. And we remember other stories that help us build our own stories, scraps of lumber and fragments of narrative we gather together to make stories for ourselves.
You can’t spend much time around Unsettling Wonder without meeting Laura Rae. Her strange, sensitive artwork graces a lot of what we do around here. That’s her rabbit and wolf (or is it wolf and rabbit?)…Continue Reading
By popular demand, we’ve made Jane Yolen’s new poetry collection Sister Fox’s Field Guide to the Writing Life available in paperback. If you missed your chance to buy the limited edition, or want an affordable…Continue Reading
A guest post by Susan Price The first story in my new e-book collection of folk-legends, Heads and Tales, is ‘The Boy and the Blacksmiths’. In short, the story is of a blacksmith challenged to…Continue Reading
A Guest Post by Susan Price I have read and loved folklore since a child, and was well aware that the severed head has a special significance in Celtic-Nordic folklore. Two examples are the severed…Continue Reading
There are good wizards, there are evil wizards, and then, there are bad wizards—the kind that create the vorpal apple corer, the ten-thousand-league piano dolly, the leggings of a hundred insects. They live in the…Continue Reading
Pete Seeger died today at the age of 93. If ever anyone needed no introduction, well, it sure was Pete Seeger. And other, far more capable folks will write celebrating his nigh-on-a-century of staggering contributions…Continue Reading
As a suitable pairing with our review of The Wild Girl, this week we’re pleased to be giving away one signed copy of Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth’s retelling of ‘Rapunzel’. Kim Wilkins called Bitter Greens…Continue Reading
