Irish Gifts

Passed down from generation to generation, from “The Crock of Gold” to “The Fairy Lios,” these six beautifully illustrated stories beg to be read aloud to children or by children.

Excerpt from The Magic Cloak
It was almost dawn. Both sea and land were covered in mist. Eoin hid behind the rock as the tide ebbed far out into the bay. He had been waiting for a long time for this special day. Every seven years a very strange magical event happened. The old people in the village said that the sea went out as far as the horizon and the fairy people appeared. They spread a magic cloak in the centre of the sands and this held back the tide. Whoever owned the cloak could order the sea to stay back and would have good fertile land to make a farm…