Sapphire and her older brother, Conor, live with their parents in a small cottage at the edge of the sea. Together, Sapph and Conor spend their summers climbing down the cliffs to the small sandy cove near their home, where they explore the narrow caves, study the tidal pools, swim in the ocean, and eat [...]
The Once Upon a TIMES reports that Princess Vera is deathly ill, and that her father, the King, is frantic. Fortunately, Libby Gaberchik, fairy and healer, knows just what is wrong with the dear girl. Love. The princess is starved for it.
So Libby tells the king that Vera must eat three perfect peaches and marry [...]
A young girl named Tiktala wants to become a soapstone carver so that she can become rich and famous, but is told by a village elder that she must go in search of a spirit helper. Transformed into a harp seal, she meets Tulimak, a seal who hates humans, who has been chosen to help [...]
Eleven year-old Princess Jill, sister to King Jack and daughter to Mother Goose, is spoilt and impulsive and prone to trying to sneak out of doing her chores, but she’s also brave and smart and determined, so, when she receives a message from someone known only as F.G., urgently asking for her help in the [...]
Princess Esmeralda is the despair of her mother. Lacking in the social graces, clumsy and bored by self-absorbed suitors, she prefers exploring the flora and fauna of the swamp and visiting her aunt Grassina, a witch, to attending formal balls. When she trips and frightens away some grasshoppers in the swamp one day, [...]
Eleven year-old Sabrina and seven year-old Daphne Grimm are descendants of Wilhelm Grimm, famed author of Grimm’s fairytales, and heirs to his legacy. Though the world believes that his fairytales are just made-up stories, it seems that Wilhelm did no more than write accounts of the fairy tale characters, or Everafters, whom he knew, [...]
Hunky Dory is at the head of her class at Charm School. She is first in spelling and almost always Miss Harbinger’s class pet. But, when she makes an uninvited visit to a Christening party with her Auntie Malice, something in this young witch begins to change. She can’t help herself from [...]
When Peter notices the sailor’s reaction to an old trunk that is being loaded onto the Never Land, he becomes curious. Why does the sailor seem so happy when he touches the truck through the canvas that has been wrapped around it? Why does he seem reluctant to take his hand away?
Peter and [...]
For Ingrid, spending the summer in her family’s small apartment in Parkdale, while her parents work and her best friend, Alice, travels to Hawaii, seems impossibly boring and lonely. So, when a letter arrives from her grandmother, the Countess Liliane Montesquieu von Puffdorf di Turbino de la Louve des Balazs, a grandmother she has [...]
