Rosaleen (Rose) Darke is a Grammar School student, who is unable to sleep one night and goes downstairs to sit and read. Her reading is interrupted by a hailstorm followed by more (unexplained) noise from outside...
Curious, Rose grabs her mother's trusty wooden spoon from the kitchen and goes out into the garden to investigate. Here she sees an Ice Giant who hands her a flaming red stone. Rose quickly returns to bed and wakens the next morning convinced that it was all a dream; however, when her mum discovers the wooden spoon lying in the garden Rose realises that it wasn't a dream after all...
We then go on a magical journey with Rose as she figures out what she is supposed to do with this mysterious red stone, meeting a multitude of mystical characters on her way.
This is a magical and mystical tale which is steeped in Irish folklore; well worth a read.
Curious, Rose grabs her mother's trusty wooden spoon from the kitchen and goes out into the garden to investigate. Here she sees an Ice Giant who hands her a flaming red stone. Rose quickly returns to bed and wakens the next morning convinced that it was all a dream; however, when her mum discovers the wooden spoon lying in the garden Rose realises that it wasn't a dream after all...
We then go on a magical journey with Rose as she figures out what she is supposed to do with this mysterious red stone, meeting a multitude of mystical characters on her way.
This is a magical and mystical tale which is steeped in Irish folklore; well worth a read.