Jim Henson's the storyteller

The Storyteller television series, which featured the nine stories told in this book, was the brainchild of Jim Henson and his daughter, Lisa. Their idea was to find a way of telling stories to a modern audience with the same power and resonance as they had in days gone by when people would gather around a fire on long evenings and listen to a Storyteller. Minghella plundered and borrowed and extracted from the riches of European folk tales for these stories.