Claire Fayers – författare

Enjoy Wales's rich heritage of myth andfairy tales, re-told for young readers.From magical Welsh dragons that destroy a castle nightafter night, to a princess made out of flowers and a fairychangeling bother; from loyal hunting hound Gelert,to a boy who asks questions and goes on to become the greatestWelsh bard ever known... This book includes traditionalfavourites and classic myths and legends from Welsh folklore.18 Welsh fairy tales, myths and legends in a perfect, child-friendlypackageBeautiful new edition of retellings - including the story ofthe Welsh flag came to have a red dragon on it, and other home-grownmagical myths and legendsScholastic Classics: introducing generations of book lovers totimeless stories, repackaged especially for young readersLook out for the others in the series: Irish Fairy Tales,Myths and Legends, Scottish Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends, andStories From Around the World

Take to the high seas in Voyage to Magical North, a swashbuckling pirate adventure filled with magic by Claire Fayers.Twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne is a girl with a past . . . if only she could remember what it is. Found alone in a rowboat as a child, clutching a shard of the rare starshell needed for spell-casting, she's spent every day since housekeeping for an irritable magician and his obnoxious apprentice, Peter.But everything changes when Brine and Peter accidentally break the magician's starshell and need to flee the island. Lost at sea, they blunder into the path of the legendary pirate ship the Onion. Before you can say 'pieces of eight,' they're up to their necks in the pirates' quest to find Magical North, a place so shrouded in secrets and myth that most people don't even think it exists. If Brine is lucky, she may find out who her parents are and why they sent her out to sea. And if she's unlucky, everyone on the ship will be eaten by sea monsters. It really could go either way.Enjoy more fun adventures with The Accidental Pirates in Journey to Dragon Island.

The town of Wyse, set precisely on the border of England and Wales, is remarkable for one thing: it is the only remaining human town where magic works. When twelve-year-old Ava and her brother return to their birthplace of Wyse, they discover that their once magical town has been losing its charms under the control of Lord Skinner. Uncovering a working magic mirror, Ava opens an unauthorized link to the twinned town of Unwyse, where she meets Howell, one of the unlucky Fair Folk who is being pursued by the terrifying Mr Bones. Discovering that they are the joint guardians of a grumpy old book that can tell the future, the new friends are unexpectedly launched headlong into an adventure to uncover the mysterious link between Mr Bones and Lord Skinner, and to find out what's happening to the waning magic that connects their two worlds.From Claire Fayers, the critically acclaimed author of The Accidental Pirates series, comes Mirror Magic a magical adventure like no other!

Myth becomes reality in the unlikeliest of places in the fast-paced and funny Storm Hound, winner of the Tir na n-Og award. Storm of Odin is the youngest stormhound of the Wild Hunt that haunts lightning-filled skies. He has longed for the time when he will be able to join his brothers and sisters but on his very first hunt he finds he can't keep up and falls to earth, landing on the A40 just outside Abergavenny.Enter twelve-year-old Jessica Price, who finds and adopts a cute puppy from an animal rescue centre. And suddenly, a number of strange people seem very interested in her and her new pet, Storm. People who seem to know a lot about magic . . . Jessica starts to see that there's something different about her beloved dog and will need to work out which of her new friends she can trust.Claire Fayers' electrifying fourth adventure Storm Hound, will have you wondering what your dog can really do.

Tapper Watson is just an ordinary Erisean boy who loves adventure stories. But when one of his sixty-seven cousins sends him away on a smugglers' submarine through the River Lethe to other worlds, he just wants to go home again.On an unscheduled visit to Earth he meets Fern Shakespeare, and a talking plant called Morse, and their adventures begin. And when he finds himself being chased through worlds by a pair of trigger-happy lobster mobsters in search of the mysterious Nemo Machine, Tapper begins to realise that he might not be so ordinary after all...

A wealth of Welsh myths, legends and ghost stories are reimagined for contemporary younger readers. Meet Idris, the teenage giant king on a quest to collect stories. As he travels across Wales in this anthology, he hears stories of vengeful goblins, a ghoulish party and a whole host of fascinating folk reimagined from Welsh legend. Old stories are given new life in these exciting adventures full of feisty and fun characters living in a mixture of traditional and modern worlds.· 17 adventures, fairy tales and ghost stories from across Wales, retold and reimagined by the author of Welsh Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends· Traditional stories are given new life through a contemporary storyteller’s lens – a feisty, inclusive and relatable cast in a mix of traditional and contemporary settings· Beautiful, decorative edition – perfect as a gift or keepsake and for reading aloud.