The Story Collector

A book of retold folk-tales, by Carnegie Medal winning author, Susan Price.
Everybody has a story.
Sergeant Lamb, an old soldier who fought at Waterloo, tells of a soldier how found his way to Heaven and God's chair…
Mrs. Riley, a dying woman, tells the story of a murdered girl whose hair strung a fiddle…
A ghostly black dog tells the tale of 'The Land Where All The Animals Say Good Day!'
In Paradise, the Virgin Mary pours the tea and says, 'I went to the garden to pick a bit of thyme – I've told my tale, now thee tell thine!'
Everybody has a story.