Princess Nerissa lived in a room in which the heavy curtains were always drawn and candles were lit in shaded corners. She came to be known as the Princess of Shadows. One day, Prince Ferdinand came to visit the kingdom and heard about the princess. He wondered if she was ill. “No!” said the king, […]

The sunlight fell though the leaves and scattered through the forest. On the rays, there were little people sliding up, down and flying up. Betsy watched them for a while and saw that a wedding was being celebrated. A pretty little fairy in a white wedding gown was floating up the ray of sunshine as

The Queen Bee was dying and all the bees in the honeycomb were feeling dreadfully sad. The Queen Bee called Princess Ellen and told her, “Remember that you will have to look after all the bees in the honeycomb. Be careful if you ever see smoke! That is a strange creature called Man who steals

Everyone in the palace was feeling worried because Princess Delia was ill. She was such a gentle sweet-natured girl that she was loved by all. The doctors attended upon her constantly and the king and the queen were always with her. One day, a young man came to the palace. “I am a shepherd, sir.

Princess Sarah spent so much time reading books that she had very little time to play. So, she had no friends. One day, she sat with a storybook under a large tree in the garden. It was all about some friends who had an adventure on an island. “I wish I too had a friend

No one in the kingdom believed Prince Lionel. He would keep telling all kinds of stories. Finally, old Mrs Wilson put a spell on him, “Every time you tell lies, Prince Lionel, your nose will turn a bright blue!” But Lionel only laughed because he thought no one dared to put a spell on him.

Jason, the elf, lived near a garden in an old teacup, with a picture of a fairy on it. He wished to find a pretty fairy like that for a wife. One day, he heard a cry for help. He found a small fairy who had fallen into a puddle of water and wetted her

“Bring me a dragon’s tail!” ordered the haughty Princess Karen. “Then I shall decide what reward to give you!” The nobleman, the soldier and the poor farmer set off to get the dragon’s tail. They went to the mountain where it lived, but the nobleman was eaten up and the farmer was killed. The soldier

A nobleman was very eager to marry his daughter to Prince Bernard. Then she would later be the queen. He offered the king gold and jewels for the prince. But the king refused and said, “It’s for the prince to decide!” The prince set off to seek a bride. At night, he stopped at an

A merchant’s beautiful daughter asked her father to bring a rose when he returned from his travels. When the merchant plucked a rose from a garden, a huge beast came and stopped him. He said he would give the rose if he brought him the first thing that he saw when he got back home.

Princess Diana enjoyed hunting. She had heads of stags and bears in the palace and there were stuffed foxes, hares and birds decorating various rooms. But one day, all that changed. When she went out hunting in the forest, she shot a doe. When she got down to have it fetched, she found a tiny

Joseph was the village idiot. Everyone laughed at him and played pranks to make a fool of him. One day, he got so upset that he ran away from the village. When he stopped for the night at an inn, the innkeeper asked him where he was going. “I have nowhere to go,” said Joseph.

Miss Holland, the governess of Princess Nora, was very angry. “Why can’t you remember the tables of 7?” she said, exasperated. “There’s a problem with 7, Miss Holland,” said Nora looking very serious. “Problem with 7?” asked Miss Holland. “What problem?” “I have seven tiaras, seven pairs of shoes, seven friends, seven rooms in my

A pretty little girl, the size of a thumb, was born to a woman who named her Thumbelina. The woman put her in a bed made of a walnut shell on the windowsill. But a frog saw Thumbelina and kidnapped her to marry her. His mother put her in the middle of a lake on

All the attendants of Princess Georgina were out in the garden playing with a ball. A fairy who saw them felt very jealous that she had no friends to play with. She hid the ball and the game stopped. The next day, when they played blind man’s buff, she hid the scarf! Princess Georgina realised