TFK Kid Reporter Dylan Landaw read Magical Nature Tales and interviewed its author, Dawn Casey. Read Dylan’s thoughts below.
Magical Nature Tales, by Dawn Casey, is a wonderful collection of folktales from around the world. True to the book’s title, each story features a touch of magic: talking animals, enchanted trees, mystical beings. Anja Sušanj’s beautiful illustrations add to the stories’ magic.
Many of the tales in the book are very old. “For me, the old stories have a particular value because they’ve come through so many generations of people,” Casey told TIME for Kids. “People have specifically chosen those stories and kept them alive because they knew there was something valuable in them—some wisdom or some magic that they wanted to pass on.”
Casey wanted to write this book because she loves nature. As a child, she lived in London. Though it’s a big city, she managed to connect with nature in small ways. She’d eat blackberries growing on a forgotten fence, or pick dandelions and make a wish before blowing their seeds. Casey believes we’re all deeply connected to nature. “I really believe and feel in my bones that we are all nature,” she says. “Nature is not something separate from us. We’re all part of one huge web of life.”
I would highly recommend Magical Nature Tales to anyone who likes folktales or feels a special connection with nature.
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