Book Description

When our lovely heroine is born so breathtakingly beautiful, her father, the King, is amazed by her astounding beauty, so he names her Fairer-than-a-Fairy. This one act signals an ancient enemy and sets in motion a series of dire events for the little princess, for the Dark Faerie World takes the baby's naming as a challenge. Fairer-than-a-Fairy will face kidnaping and imprisonment, a perilous journey, seemingly impossible tasks, an Ogre, a voyage across the sea, hidden dangers and tests of courage and will. She will also make alliances, find opportunities for true happiness, explore the meaning of friendship and justice, and contemplate the True Love. Fairer-than-a-Fairy is a True Hero Princess from centuries' worth of story, brought to us over time as a girl-become-woman, purposefully choosing her Path.Fairer-than-a-Fairy comes to us most recently through Andrew Lang's series of Fairy Books of Many Colors: twelve books containing 437 stories. “Fairer-than-a-Fairy” appeared in the Yellow Fairy Book published in 1894. Like other 19th century fairy tales, Andrew Lang's version of the story was greatly reduced from the original version, retaining only the most basic elements, leaving behind many of the most powerful pieces of the Heroine's Journey. The Fairy Tale Project at Wonder Tales for Today's Woman has traced the story through the centuries to discover the missing pieces, working through story cuts and mapping the elements of the story geographically to its origins in the Wonder Tales of Ancient Greece more than 800 years ago. The result is this marvelous Fairy Tale, relevant still, as the universal nature of a story about life and growing up, that lasts over time and space.