The Golden Key by George MacDonald

There was a boy who used to sit in the twilight and listen to his great-aunt’s  stories. She told him that if he could reach the place where the end of  the rainbow stands he would find there a golden key...
“And what is the key for?” the boy would ask. “What is it the key to? What will it open?”
“No one knows,” his aunt would reply. “He has to figure that out.”
Now  all that his great-aunt told the boy about the golden key would have  been nonsense, had it not been that their little house stood on the  borders of Fairyland. For it is perfectly well known that out of  Fairyland nobody ever can find where the rainbow stands....
George  MacDonald’s classic tale, full of imagination and dreamlike images,  tells of a girl and boy, Tangle and Mossy, who venture on a mysterious  and magical journey. First, Tangle encounters three Old Men—of the Sea,  of the Earth and of Fire—and gains in wisdom and beauty through her  adventures. Then, together with Mossy who has the golden key, they  travel to the rainbow to discover what awaits them there.
Angela Lord, who also provides an informative afterword, illustrated this new edition of The Golden Keywith her exquisite paintings.ISBN:       9781912230280