Here are the stories that everyone knows - Robin Hood, Anaigi the Spider man, George and the Dragon - alongside a golden hoard of lesser known myths and legends from Ethopia, Mexico, China and many other countries. No one can tell a tale better than Geraldine McCaugherean. Her colourful, always readable prose sweeps you along and gives each of these 25 stories its own special magic.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
The golden wish (a Greek myth)
Shooting the sun (a Chinese myth)
George and the dragon (a Persian myth)
Skinning out (an Ethiopian myth)
Robin Hood and the golden arrow (an English legend)
Brave quest (a Native American myth)
Saving time (a Polynesian myth)
The lake that flew away (an Estonian legend)
Admirable hare (a legend from Ceylon)
All roads lead to Wales (a Welsh legend)
Rainbow snake (an Australian myth)
Juno's Roman geese (a Roman legend)
John Barleycorn (an American myth)
The singer above the river (a German legend)
How music was fetched out of heaven (a Mexican myth)
Whose footprints? (a myth from the Gold Coast)
The death of El Cid (a Spanish legend)
The man who almost lived forever (a Mesopotamian legend)
Stealing heaven's thunder (a Norse myth)
Anansi and the mind of God (a West Indian myth)
How men and women finally agreed (a Kikuyu myth)
First snow (a Native American myth)