Ah, Coyote. He’s one of the many glories of Native American folk stories and, for me, perhaps the prime glory. He’s a lot like the fox in European folk stories, in that he can be good or bad, wise or foolish, or all of these things at once. In short, he’s very human, and that’s …
The book industry’s an odd one. About three weeks ago I finished handwriting the first draft of my third novel, which I’ve since been typing up to see what I’ve got on my hands. In the meantime my second book, The Man who Rained, is at the printers being turned into something glossy and pretty …
This was meant to be a post about Prince Faithful, a Swedish fairy tale you can read in English in this great book. The hitch in the plan was that the story is about a genius talking horse, and that all the horses I tried to draw were too appallingly bad to post on this …
So, as promised and in celebration of La Ragazza dai Piedi di Vetro being available in Italy, here are some pictures for a great folk story collected by the legendary Italo Calvino in his book Italian Folktales. This one is from the same family as The Griffin and The Devil With The Three Golden Hairs (the latter …
…although I would rather we call it The Seven Dwarfs And Snow White here. Needless to say, this is one of the fairy tale heavyweights. Whole libraries have been written about it, which makes even typing this sentence daunting. You only have to enter Snow White into Wikipedia to get a sense of how many …