As a child, Ruth Manning-Sanders spent her holidays in a farmhouse at the edge of a sea loch in the Scottish Highlands. There, when the weather was wet, she would listen, enthralled, as the grandmother of the family told her stories. Not made up stories, but those age-folk tales native to Scotland which are so little known outside the country.
It is the version Ruth Manning-Sanders first heard that appears in some of the tales here; the others have been gathered from all over Scotland. Each story in the collection is written in Ruth Manning-Sanders' own special style to entertain and capture the imagination of every young reader and listener.
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Scottish Folk Tales
