70 Favorite Books: Tam Lin
20. Tam Lin by Pamela Dean (1991)
I forbid ye maidens all
that wear gold in your hair
to travel to Carterhaugh
for young Tam Lin is there
This is a retelling of the Tam Lin ballad (girl meets boy, gets pregnant, has to save boy from the Fairy Queen) that book geeks like me enjoy because Pamela Dean is such a book geek herself, she constantly references literature in the book (Shakespeare, etc…) which is why I love it because you can just see her joy and love for literature you can’t help but also get caught in that joy.
