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Greyling

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 7
Categories: Fantasy, Folk Tale

Author

Jane
Yolen

Appeared in

Neptune Rising: Songs & Tales of the Undersea Folk

Story Summary

A lonely fisherman and his wife get the son they always dreamed of in the form of a selkie who is eventually drawn back to the sea... but returns each year with stories for the fisherman and his wife.