Once Upon a Time the Fifth

Come away O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery hand in hand,

For the world’s more full of weeping

than you can understand.

- William Butler Yeats, “The Stolen Child’

Do you have any idea how much I need this right now? To loose myself in fairy tales and legends and folklore and all the stories I love so much? Every spring I say this is my favorite challenge. In the Fall I’ll say it’s RIP. I’m looking for a little healing right now. Hopefully I’m going to find it.

I am doing Quest the First.

Here is my pool:

• Faery Tale: One Woman’s Search for Enchantment in the Modern World by Signe Pike
• Rose by Jeff Smith
• Tall Tales by Jeff Smith
• Quest for the Spark by Jeff Smith
• Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken
• Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater

• The Book of Faery by OR Melling
• Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman
• In Ashes Lie by Marie Brennan
• Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan

• Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter
• The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
• Enna Burning by Shannon Hale
• War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
• Fitcher’s Brides by Gregory Frost
• White as Snow by Tanith Lee
• Jack of Kinrowan: Jack the Giant Killer and Drink Down the Moon by Charles de Lint
• Into the Green by Charles de Lint
• Waifs and Strays by Charles de Lint
• The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint
• Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
• Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
• Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
• The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien
• The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien
• The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones
• Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

and on and on and on…. that’s just the tip of the iceburg. Oh, I’m so happy spring, and the Once Upon a Time challenge, is here!