william stevenson

One of the best presentations of this great classic by MacDonald. The Golden Key is terrific story to share with children. The story begins with a boy named Mossy listening one night to his Great-aunt's stories, fascinated by the tale of a magical golden key. One night, the boy sees a rainbow that shines on after dark, finds its source, and discovers the golden key. In the same village, a young girl named Tangle is frightened by the fairies and runs into fairyland also, where a tree captures her in its branches and she is freed by a mysterious creature, the air fish, before she arrives at the cottage of a wise woman. She is bathed, and to her astonishment the air fish is cooked and eaten, then transforms into a small human-like winged creature called an Aeranth. and so on and forth we go.