Before he wrote The Outermost House, Henry Beston invented these original fairy tales in the old style, full of halberdiers, wizards, princesses and enchanted castles. In one, a boy named Bobo faces a dragon whose scales break a knight’s sword, and finds that the most powerful thing in his pocket is a lost temper.
Inventive, gently funny stories for reading aloud by the fire, from a writer better known for nature prose. Download the free EPUB.