Children’s book reviews: New colours for classic tales and letting go of the ghosts of the past

A magnetic bond with the unknown and an engrossing guide into Ireland’s animals succeed in finding their way into the second of Pet O’Connell’s Children’s books Christmas round up

The Waters and the Wild by Eilish Fisher (Puffin, €24.65)

Rowan’s father often told her stories by the fireside about the Sídhe and the Otherworld; how they co-existed largely unnoticed alongside human society.