Tales of Light and Shadow: The Radiant World of George MacDonald’s Forgotten Fairy Tales

Tales of Light and Shadow: The Radiant World of George MacDonald’s Forgotten Fairy Tales is the second volume in The George MacDonald Library, continuing the work begun with The Gifts of the Child Christ: George MacDonald’s writing gently updated for today’s readers, with new illustration and lettering.

Coming October 2026. Full description to follow closer to launch.

The Gifts of the Child Christ: Annotated and Illustrated

In Victorian London, the Greatorex family has wealth but not love. When young Phosy misunderstands a Christmas sermon, her innocent faith sets in motion a chain of events that awakens every heart in the household — a story about the redemptive power of unconditional love. Part parable, part Victorian moral tale.

George MacDonald’s prose gently updated in modern English by Mandy Pallock, with original pen-and-ink illustrations by Sarah Geesey and a rich afterword on MacDonald’s life, faith, and influence on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Madeleine L’Engle, and G.K. Chesterton. 90 pages. Audiobook narrated by Mandy Pallock herself, with an illustrated PDF companion.