The Mirror’s Witch

Exquisitely illustrated fairy tales complete with a free downloadable full length soundtrack album.If you stare too long into the mirror she will find you.Author and illustrator Francis O'Dowd grew up in a house with no number on a street with no name.The garden backed onto long forgotten farm buildings behind which lay piles of junk, including an ancient, battered mirror. As a child, Francis would take his plastic wheelbarrow to the bottom of the garden, upturn it, and sit for hours to listen. For trapped in the reflections of the mirror was a witch. A witch with stories of sirens and heartless giants, things that live in the walls and under the stairs, the king of the beasts and the eater of days.Both house and mirror are long gone, but the tales remain in this 7 part series.With 27 stunning illustrations, this first volume features wish-granting fish & fishmongering elves; bad wolves & disgruntled bears; something very short & something very old; giant panda kingdoms in the sky; a princess who feels the world turn without her; and, of course, the mirror’s witch.