Adventure tales to spark young readers’ imaginations

The latest additions to The New York Review Children's Collection, now on sale at 30% off The latest additions to our Children's Collection, for ages 8 and up, now 30% off [READ MORE]( [SECRET OF THE RON MOR SKERRY]( Rosalie K. Fry Fiona McConville is ten years old and lives with her grandparents in the Western Isles off the coast of Scotland. It is there she hears stories about her mother's strange ways with seals and seabirds, and about mythological selkies—who are half seal and half human—and wonders about her baby brother who disappeared long ago. Fiona is determined to find her brother and enlists her cousin Rory to help. The basis for John Sayles's classic 1994 film The Secret of Roan Inish, Rosalie K. Fry's magical and moving tale is about the power of place and family history, and is interwoven with Scottish folklore. [READ MORE]( [JIM AT THE CORNER]( Eleanor Farjeon, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone Retired sailor Jim passes his days on a street corner, where he tells a curious boy named Derry about his life at sea on a ship called The Rockinghorse. Filled with tales of talking sea serpents and stew-eating chimpanzees, Eleanor Farjeon's Jim at the Corner belongs on the shelf with Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. Edward Ardizzone's masterful pen-and-ink illustrations of maritime creatures bring these old-fashioned adventure tales to life for young readers. For three days only, [Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry]( and [Jim at the Corner]( will be available at 30% off. Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry is the October selection of the Children's Book Club Heroines series. New York Review Books 435 Hudson Street, Suite 300 New York, NY 10014 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](