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Contents ( 12)
  1. The Splendid Cannibals
  2. The Fork-Tongued Princess
  3. The First Ymbryne
  4. The Woman Who Befriended Ghosts
  5. Cocobolo
  6. The Pigeons of Saint Paul’s
  7. The Girl Who Could Tame Nightmares
  8. The Locust
  9. The Boy Who Could Hold Back the Sea
  10. The Tale of Cuthbert
  11. The Man Who Bottled the Sun
  12. What’s next on your reading list?

24. This, too, is verified by history: late on the night of April 27, the Hannah struck an iceberg, and Shaw fled with his crew in the only lifeboat.

25. That is not to say giants disappeared altogether; they simply stopped walking the earth. Read the tale “Cocobolo” to learn what became of them.

26. They reached the cliff-top via an ingenious rope-and-pulley system Miss Wren engineered herself.

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