Illustrated by Jacqueline East
A retelling of six Irish folktales about the Little People.
Publication year: 2011
Format: print
Page count: 64
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan
This is a charming little book for kids. Each page has illustrations which match the story on that page. The book has six stories where people encounter Leprechauns in various ways. In a couple of them, greedy humans are trying to get the Leprechaun’s gold but there are other classic tales, too. The stories are pretty short.
The stories: The Crock of Gold, Niamh, The Sidhe, The Fairy Lios, The Magic Cloak, and The New House.
To me the illustrations look similar to children’s book illustrations and they fit the stories well.
Mervi's Book reviews 
April 7, 2013 at 9:14 pm
Aw, just from the cover this looks adorable!
April 13, 2013 at 10:25 pm
This really does look adorable and the whole Leprechaun thing makes me thing of a film that my dad used to love – the name of which just escapes me. Drat. I’ll be thinking of that for ages now!
Lynn 😀