Description
This heartwarming collection of fairy tales celebrates the power of hope, and gently encourages questions about what happiness really means.
Meet a brave princess who brings happiness to her kingdom by forging her own path, two children on a quest to discover the meaning of happiness, and a magician’s daughter who discovers the power of positivity.
Featuring diverse, inspiring and empowering characters, each story centers around a celebration of hope and happiness.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, these seven stories have been re-imagined to inspire a new generation of readers.
Chapters in this book include:
– Introduction
– The Last Dragon (based on ‘The Last of the Dragons’ by Edith Nesbit)
– The Magic Weather Boy (adapted from ‘Fairies Afield’ by Mary Louisa Molesworth)
– The Bluebird of Happiness (adapted from ‘The Blue Bird’ a children’s play by Maurice Maeterlinck)
– The Magician’s Daughter (adapted from ‘The Spell of the Magician’s Daughter’ by Evelyn Sharp)
– The Wanderings of Caspian (based on Mary De Morgan’s fairy tale of the same name)
– The Badly Behaved Princess (inspired by ‘The Magic Medicine’ by Denis Mackail)
– Where the Rainbow Ends (adapted from a children’s play, by Emilie Mills and John Ramsey)
– The Stories and their Writers
