by Anne E. G. Nydam (Author), Anne E. G. Nydam (Illustrator)

Everyone's heard of fairy tale endings, but these are stories with fairy tale beginnings...

- The Mirror on the Wall reflects on beauty - The Shades watch Persephone's arrival in Hades - Thirteen fairies explain the gifts they bestow on a princess - Cain and Abel chase each other through cycles of reincarnation - It takes a flock to raise a Baba Yaga - Medusa sings to her snakes - Jorinde remembers her time as a nightingale - The Dish and the Spoon send postcards from their honeymoon - Pandora's box contains another surprise - Sleeping Beauty dreams - And much more...

An enchanting collection of 19 magical short stories, 21 (plus) evocative poems, and over 100 whimsical relief block prints inspired by traditional European fairy tales, classical myths, and other legends and folklore.

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