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Peter Stevenson

Author of Favourite Tales: The Enormous Turnip

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Works by Peter Stevenson

Favourite Tales: The Enormous Turnip (1994) — Illustrator — 46 copies
Favourite Tales: Peter and the Wolf (1993) — Illustrator — 29 copies
Five-minute Bedtime Tales (2002) 15 copies
Welsh Folk Tales (2017) 13 copies
Five Favourite Fairy Tales (1600) 12 copies
ABC123 (1984) 10 copies
Kitten Tales for Bedtime Hb (1996) 10 copies
Animal ABC (2003) 9 copies
Sailboats you can build (1977) 9 copies
Best Loved Nursery Rhymes (1984) 8 copies
Braithwaite's Original (1981) 7 copies
Humpty and Friends (2004) 5 copies
Les trois petits cochons (1999) 2 copies
No Fairies (2011) 2 copies
Caperucita Roja (2002) 1 copy
A Far Cry from Noah (1994) 1 copy
Pikkuväen kisusatuja (1993) 1 copy
Pikkuväen pupusatuja (1992) 1 copy
Ward Lock's animal ABC (1980) 1 copy

Associated Works

Read it Yourself: Sly Fox and Red Hen (1978) — Illustrator, some editions — 134 copies
Baby's First Prayers (First Bible Collection) (1998) — Illustrator — 87 copies
Favourite Tales: The Elves and the Shoemaker (1990) — Illustrator — 67 copies
Favourite Tales: Pinocchio (1992) — Illustrator — 63 copies
My Sloppy Tiger (1836) — Illustrator — 53 copies
The Christmas Robin (1988) — Illustrator, some editions — 51 copies
Little Red Riding Hood (Ladybird Favourite Tales) (1993) — Illustrator — 46 copies
My Big Book of Fairy Tales (2002) 43 copies
Favourite Tales: Hansel and Gretel (1993) — Illustrator, some editions — 42 copies
5-minute Bunny Tales for Bedtime (1988) — Illustrator — 31 copies
Read With Ladybird: Mystery Tour (1997) — Illustrator — 29 copies
5 Minute Barnyard Tales for Bedtime (1993) — Illustrator — 16 copies
Read With Ladybird: Seaside Surprise (1997) — Illustrator, some editions — 12 copies
Fairy & Folk Tales from around the World (1986) — Illustrator, some editions — 11 copies
Read With Ladybird: The School Photograph (2001) — Illustrator — 10 copies
A World of Folk Tales (1981) — Illustrator, some editions — 10 copies
MISS BESSY AND COWBOY BILL (Dominie Joy Chapter Books) (2002) — Illustrator — 10 copies
Ting-a-ling! (2004) — Illustrator — 8 copies
The Night Before Christmas [Stevenson] (1985) — Illustrator; Illustrator — 8 copies

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Chwedl Cymraeg? means Do you speak Welsh, and Do you tell a tale in Welsh? This is the root of storytelling or chwedleua in Wales. This book is a collection of such tales - ancient and new. Many of the tales are very short just like stories you would hear in a conversation. A disparate collection, but enjoyable.
 
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LindaLiu | 1 other review | Sep 19, 2022 |
‘’These stories are of another world, an Otherworld so familiar to the folk of Ceredigion 100 years ago; exotic and enticing, dark and dangerous, curious and comical, a world of the marginalised and misunderstood, of flooded lands and lost languages. A dreamworld.’’

Let’s travel to Wales.

A wanderer stumbles upon an old estate and starts narrating the tales of the Tylwyth Tag. Of changelings and witches. Myths like Rhysyn and the Mermaid, the Tale of Taliesin. Stories of the men-women who demand justice, of devilry and Old Nick himself, of the White Lady of Broginan and the ghosts of Aberystwyth Promenade, of phantom funerals and corpse candles. The Talking Tree of Cwmystwyth, Operation Julie, legendary ‘’people of the road’’.

Written with elegant, playful humour and with a deep sense of nostalgia, respect and tenderness for the region and its inhabitants (mortals and otherwordly alike), Peter Stevenson has created one of the finest volumes in the exceptional Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland series.

‘’Ceredigion is a land of contrasts, where old meets new, where dolphins swim close to the biggest fish-processing plant in the land; where men dress in women’s clothes not only for a Friday night out with the boys, but to stand up for their liberty and carry out acts of subversion; where conjurers weave their spells in the hills away from those who think they wear pointy hats, cloaks, long grey beards and appear on Saturday night TV; where the last beavers in Wales lived on the banks of the Teifi rather than in a cage waiting for permission to be released as part of a reintroduction scheme; and where the fair folk are darker and more dangerous than the gossamer-winged sprites who live in the illustrations in children’s picture books. It is a land where people speak the language of story, and the stories have mud on their boots.’’

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AmaliaGavea | May 22, 2022 |
At first this seemed like a good idea. However, by the end I found myself in a blur of anecdotal, sometimes mythological, other times authorial passages which, although having chaptered themes, began to lose its pep. The author dips in and out of elucidation and sometimes I felt a bit disconcerted as how much the author had contributed to the telling of each piece and how much was "verbatim" from the sources from whence they came. In that I didn't want to read Welsh Folk Tales as told by Peter Stevenson, I wanted some background on who told the story and where it came from.

To be honest, the book for me was less a folk compendium and more a periodical assortment of loose tales. Having said that, it is still worth a read if you have an interest on the subject as it may introduce many myths and folktales that may otherwise remain unknown.
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