Table of Contents
Introduction: A Calendar of Stories 7
January 11
Twelve Months 11
Bringing in the Year 24
Ranting Roving Robin 26
February 30
First and Last 32
Town Mouse and Country Mouse 35
Rat and Weasel 38
March 41
Clever Crow, Wily Fox 44
Tim Vole 48
Fussv Wren 51
April 55
Cherry Blossom 58
Paradise Regained 62
The Tulip Pixies 65
May 68
The Marriage of Bride 73
Poppy May or Thumbelina 74
Five Queens 85
June 90
Say it with Flowers 92
A Midsummer Dream? 94
Not Kissing the Frog 98
July 104
Jack and the Magic Beans 107
Fruit of Love 113
Beauty and the Rose 116
August 127
Mr McGregor's Garden 130
A Bride for Mole 132
The Butterfly that Stamped 135
September 146
Grian and Auld Goggie 148
Bird or Beast? 153
King of the East, King of the West 155
October 161
Apple Girl 164
Home or Away 167
Halloween Walking 170
November 175
Traveller Soup 177
The Enormous Turnip 181
Evergreen 184
December 188
Donald and Mary 192
The Green Knight 196
Robin Redbreast and Jenny Wren 202