Jane Yolen
1) Corvidae
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A flock of shiny stories! Associated with life and death, disease and luck, corvids have long, captured mankind's attention, showing up in mythology, as the companions or manifestations of deities, and starring in stories from Aesop to Poe and beyond.
In Corvidae birds are, born of blood and pain, trickster ravens live up to their names, magpies take human form, blue jays battle evil forces, and choughs become prisoners of war. These stories will...
2) Scarecrow
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Hay-men, mommets, tattie bogles, kakashi, tao-tao-whether formed of straw or other materials, the tradition of scarecrows is pervasive in farming cultures around the world. The scarecrow serves as decoy, proxy, and effigy-human but not human. We create them in our image and ask them to protect our crops and by extension our very survival, but we refrain from giving them the things a creation might crave-souls, brains, free-will, love. In Scarecrow,...
3) Equus
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There's always something magical about horses, isn't there? Whether winged or at home in the water, mechanical or mythological, the equines that gallop through these pages span the fantasy spectrum. In one story a woman knits her way up to the stars and in another Loki's descendant grapples with bizarre transformations while fighting for their life. A woman races on a unique horse to save herself from servitude, while a man rides a chariot through...