Neil Philip
Author · 34 books
Neil Philip is a writer, folklorist and poet. He is married to the artist Emma Bradford, and lives in the Cotswolds, England. Neil loves words, poetry, and the art of storytelling in all its forms. Among his many books are A Fine Anger, Victorian Village Life, The Cinderella Story, The Penguin Book of English Folktales, Mythology (with Philip Wilkinson), The Great Mystery, War and the Pity of War, The New Oxford Book of Childrens Verse, The Tale of Sir Gawain, Horse Hooves & Chicken Feet, and The Adventures of Odysseus. Neil has contributed to numerous journals, including The Times, and Signal: Approaches to Childrens Books, and has also written for stage, screen, and radio. His work has won numerous awards and honours, including the Aesop Award of the American Folklore Society and the Literary Criticism Book Award of the Childrens Literature Association. Outside of the storied world, Neil is passionate about cats, art, music, France, food & wine, and friendship.
Books
The Little People
Stories of Fairies, Pixies, and Other Small Folk
2002
The Illustrated Book of Myths
1995
Myths and Fairy Tale Collection
1999
IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD, A Century of Women's Voices in Poetry
2000
Earth Always Endures
Native American Poems
1996
Mythology in Minutes - The World's 200 Most Famous Fables, Epics and Legends
2017
Fairy tales from Eastern Europe
1991
Poems for Christmas
1995
Horse Hooves and Chicken Feet
Mexican Folktales
2003
The Fish Is Me!
Bathtime Rhymes
2002
The Penguin Book of English Folktales
1993
The Book of Christmas
1991
Mythology of the World
2004
The Pirate Princess And Other Fairy Tales
2005
Celtic Fairy Tales
1999
The Arabian Nights
1994
Myths & Legends
1999
Songs Are Thoughts
1995
American Fairy Tales
From Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga Stories
1996
The Great Circle
A History of the First Nations
2006
War and the Pity of War
1998
Hot Potato
Mealtime Rhymes
2004
Guleesh and the King of France's Daughter
1986
A New Treasury of Poetry
1990
Dk Eyewitness Mythology
World Myths, Gods, Heroes, Creatures, Mythical Places
1998
The Adventures Of Odysseus
1997
Odin's Family
1996
In a Sacred Manner I Live
Native American Wisdom
1997
The Watkins Book of English Folktales
2022
TALE OF SIR GAWAIN
1987
The Penguin Book of Scottish Folktales
1996
The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse
1996
Mythology
1999
Robin Hood
1997
