Forgotten Fairy Tales of Hope and Happiness

Hardback Published on: 02/01/2025
Price: €18.50
Online orders are coming soon, please use Click & Collect or visit us in shop today.
Make and edit your lists in your account
No stock at Dublin - Hodges Figgis
No stock at Dublin - Hodges Figgis

Synopsis

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

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781805312598
  • Number of pages: 208
  • Dimensions: 246 x 176 x 23 mm
  • Interest age: From 7 years
  • Weight: 840g
  • Languages: English