In these twelve modern myths and tales for the young and the young at heart, Jane Yolen transforms the impossible into the familiar and real. Among the outlandish wonders are an Alice grown tough in Wonderland, a dear--but dead--mother’s homecoming, a bridge that longs for a goat-eating troll, and a mutiny among Peter Pan’s troops.

Contents:

• Curiouser and Curiouser (introduction)
• Tough Alice
• Mama Gone
• Harlyn’s Fairy
• Phoenix Farm
• Sea Dragon of Fife
• Wilding
• The Baby-Sitter
• Bolundeers
• The Bridge’s Complaint
• Brandon and the Aliens
• Winter’s King
• Lost Girls
• Running in Place: Some Thoughts Long After (afterward)