This book is utterly captivating both for its fascinating tales and the prose written with a poetic sensibility. Gorgeous. It is a feast for both the fancy and the senses.

I use stories from this when I teach China in social studies and cross over with them to my language arts classes for a unit on foxes in literature, a unit that would take to much space to explain, but several of the tales in this book have fairy foxes in them ( )