Tuscan Tales: the fantastic fables of Emma Perodi

By Lori Hetherington

Ten dark Tuscan fairy tales that Italian readers have loved for more than a hundred years.
This collection of classic 19th century Italian stories has the power to transport modern readers (ages 10 and up) to a mystical time and place, where scoundrels and saints, supernatural events and magical objects appear in the Tuscan countryside next to the peasants who populate the hinterlands.