{"title":"Fairy Tales \u0026 Mythology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe oldest stories, and the writers who keep going back to them. Fairy tales were never for children. They were compressed instruction on how a world works and what it costs to cross it, and the good ones still carry that weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Grimms collected theirs to preserve a disappearing oral tradition; what they wrote down retains the punishments and the mutilations that later editions sanded off. Amal El-Mohtar's \u003cem\u003eThe River Has Roots\u003c\/em\u003e takes \"The Twa Sisters,\" the murder ballad where a drowned girl's bones become a singing harp, and gives it back its teeth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmos Tutuola wrote from Yoruba oral tradition directly, in an English entirely his own, and produced something English critics in 1954 had no framework for. Brian Froud's \u003cem\u003eGood Faeries\/Bad Faeries\u003c\/em\u003e is the illustrated book that shaped how a generation pictures the fae: earthy, wrinkled, and not remotely safe. William T. Cox's \u003cem\u003eFearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods\u003c\/em\u003e catalogs the monsters American loggers swore were out there, described with the deadpan precision of a naturalist's field guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso here: Owen Barfield's \u003cem\u003eThe Silver Trumpet\u003c\/em\u003e, the first children's fantasy published by an Inkling, written before Narnia and before Middle-earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo inflated list prices, no fake sales, and no membership required. US shipping is a flat $7 per order.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-last-unicorn-paperback","title":"The Last Unicorn - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe may be the last unicorn in the world, and she leaves her forest to find out.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelf note: A fairy tale for grown-ups who still want one. Funnier than you expect, and sadder.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe unicorn has lived alone in her lilac wood for longer than she can remember, and she has never once wondered whether others of her kind still exist. Then two hunters pass through and say, out loud, that she is the last. 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