Reading stories helps us all to see life in different ways. We can leave behind our ordinary everyday life and enter into other worlds; these can be in the past or in the future, can be real or imagined; we can have adventures with heroes and heroines, with ghosts and giants, with animals and monsters which leave us wishing and wondering.

The stories in this book, selected by Tom Mullins, are from some of Ireland’s finest writers and they will delight and entertain all children.