Shelia MacGill-Callahan weaves her magical story telling with the exquisitely detailed illustrations by Gennady Spirin, to retell the Irish legend, the Children of Lir.  King Lir had four children, twin boys and twin girls. However, after the death of their mother, King Lir marries her sister. The new queen who had an evil heart was jealous of the king's love for his children. While the kind was away, she cast a magic spell upon them and changed them into swans. She vowed they would remain in that form until two mountain peaks, the Man from the North and the Woman from the South, were joined.