A dozen of the most exciting and unique writers for young people have chosen fairytales as starting points for their own original stories, in this surprising and spellbinding two-volume collection

In this companion to The Wilful Eye, six celebrated writers--Catherine Bateson (Stranded in Boringville), Victor Kelleher (Dogboy), Cate Kennedy (The World Beneath), Maureen McCarthy (Rose by Any Other Name), Nan McNab, and Kate Thompson (The New Policeman)--reclaim fairytales, taking readers back to the deep, dark woods where wolves howl and not everything can be explained. Readers of these stories will lose themselves in the forest; a place of danger, mystery, and transformation.