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'Two beautiful traditional Scottish fairy tales, The Selkie Bride and In the Kingdom of the Seals, are brought to enchanting and haunting new life by two creators who are themselves eerily linked to the magical world of the shape-shifting selkies, who are seals in the water and humans on land. For Kate's ancestors were the McPhees, who, legend says, are descended from the union of Dougal McPhee and his melancholy selkie bride, while Fiona's McDonald ancestors, lairds of the Western Isles, have a strange connection to the McPhees as well, a connection she only discovered while working on the book!' (Publication summary)
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Affective Strategies, Emotion Schemas, and Empathic Endings : Selkie Girls and a Critical Odyssey
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , vol. 23 no. 1 2015; (p. 17-33)Stephens' discusses retellings of selkie stories and folktales, focussing on scripts (or metanarrative strutures) and female characters. The paper looks at four works that interrogative the folktale pre-text: The Selkie Girl (Cooper and Hutton), The Seal Mother (Gerstein), Two Selkie Stories from Scotland (Forsyth), and Sea Hearts (Lanagan).
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Two Selkie Stories from Scotland Retold by Kate Forsyth
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , May 2014;
— Review of Two Selkie Stories from Scotland 2014 selected work picture book -
Review : Two Selkie Stories from Scotland
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , May 2014; (p. 69)
— Review of Two Selkie Stories from Scotland 2014 selected work picture book -
Christmas Press : An Exciting Adventure in Beautiful Children's Books
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: Lu Rees Archives Notes, Books and Authors , no. 35 2013; (p. 11-13)
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Review : Two Selkie Stories from Scotland
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , May 2014; (p. 69)
— Review of Two Selkie Stories from Scotland 2014 selected work picture book -
Two Selkie Stories from Scotland Retold by Kate Forsyth
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , May 2014;
— Review of Two Selkie Stories from Scotland 2014 selected work picture book -
Christmas Press : An Exciting Adventure in Beautiful Children's Books
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: Lu Rees Archives Notes, Books and Authors , no. 35 2013; (p. 11-13) -
Affective Strategies, Emotion Schemas, and Empathic Endings : Selkie Girls and a Critical Odyssey
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , vol. 23 no. 1 2015; (p. 17-33)Stephens' discusses retellings of selkie stories and folktales, focussing on scripts (or metanarrative strutures) and female characters. The paper looks at four works that interrogative the folktale pre-text: The Selkie Girl (Cooper and Hutton), The Seal Mother (Gerstein), Two Selkie Stories from Scotland (Forsyth), and Sea Hearts (Lanagan).