Wee Folk Tales

About the Book: 

These stories are about the wee folk of Scotland, told afresh for everyone including, today’s wee people. Collected here are stories from all over Scotland. Many were first published in the nineteenth and twentieth century, but all have been influenced by being told and retold, shaped and reshaped as they pass from storyteller to storyteller. 

Whether you’re introducing a wee bairn to these stories for the first time or you’re not-so-wee and reading them to yourself, you’ll find plenty to love in these charming Scots folk tales. 

About the Author:

DONALD SMITH is a renowned storyteller, founding Director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, and an experienced playwright and theatre producer. He was also a founding Director of the National Theatre of Scotland, for which he campaigned over a decade. Born in Glasgow of Irish parentage, Donald Smith was brought up in Scotland, immersed in its artistic and cultural life. Smith’s non-fiction includes Storytelling Scotland: A Nation in Narrative, God, the Poet and the Devil: Robert Burns and Religion and Arthur’s Seat: Journeys and Evocations, co-authored with Stuart McHardy. His Freedom and Faithprovides an insightful longterm perspective on the ongoing Independence debate, while Pilgrim Guide to Scotland recovers the nation’s sacred geography. Donald Smith is currently Director of Tracs (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland), based at the Storytelling Centre.

ANNALISA SALIS, originally from Sardinia, has been based in Scotland for the last ten years. She has been drawing and painting since she can remember, developing her artistic practice along the years. Expressing a sense of place is at the core of her current work, including the series of illustrations for Wee Folk Tales and Storie di terra, a playful visual ceilidh of Scottish fairy tales and Sardinian contos.