This delightful collection of seven folktales come from diverse traditions including Indian, Chilean, Inuit, Seneca, Scottish, Russian, and West African.  The illustrations are charming, with enough similarities in artistic style to give the book a unified feel, but also some subtle differences that give each story a slightly different flavor, suggesting the culture from which the story comes.  My one criticism of the book, keeping it from achieving an R* rating is that the cover doesn’t seem to match the rest of the book:  the title, combined with the cover art seems to suggest spooky stories, but the “Mystery and Magic” of the title comes more from magic mice and birds and elves, rather than ghosts and goblins that some readers might expect when they pick up the book.