The Last Selchie Child by Jane Yolen

My father’s storieswere tightly held.He was stingywith the past,coining whathe could not remember,parceling out the restwith the cautious philanthropyof a miser. From “Family Stories”   Magical transformations, enchanted mirrors, talking animals, familiar tales in unfamiliar guises, all these and more are found in the pages of The Last Selchie Child. Retellings of archetypal myths and fairy tales and the nature of storytelling itself are explored in this new collection of poems by Jane Yolen. Jane Yolen has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. She has published over 300 books, for children and adults, and her writing has won the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, the World Fantasy Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Award, among many others. Her most recent