Forgotten Fairy Tales of Hope and Happiness
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- ISBN 9781805312598
- Weight: 840g
- Dimensions: 176 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jan 2025
- Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
- Age Group: Ages 7-9
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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
