The Children of Llyr

The Children of Llyr
Cover of first edition
AuthorEvangeline Walton
Cover artistDavid Johnston
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy
PublisherBallantine Books
Publication date
1971
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Preceded byPrince of Annwn 
Followed byThe Song of Rhiannon 

The Children of Llyr is a fantasy novel by American writer Evangeline Walton, the second in her tetralogy based on the Welsh Mabinogion. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the thirty-third volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in August, 1971. It has been reprinted on numerous occasions since, and gathered together with Walton's other Mabinogion novels by Overlook Press as the omnibus The Mabinogion Tetralogy in 2002. The novel has also been published in translation in several European languages.