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The Fairies and the Christmas Child

The Fairies and the Christmas Child

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Number of Chapters: 12

Length: 3 hours and 52 minutes

Language: English

The worst of being a Christmas Child is that you don’t get birthday presents, but only Christmas ones. Old Naylor, who was Father’s coachman, and had a great gruff voice that came from his boots and was rather frightening, used to ask how I expected to grow up without proper birthdays, and I thought I might have to stay little always. When I told Father this he laughed, but a moment later he grew quite grave.
“Listen, Chris,” he said. And then he took me on his knee - I was a small chap then - and told me things that made me forget old Naylor, and wish and wish that Mother could have stayed with us. The angels had wanted her, Father explained; well, we wanted her too, and there were plenty of angels in heaven, anyway. When I said this Father gave me a great squeeze and put me down, and I tried to be glad that I was a Christmas child. But I wasn’t really until a long time afterwards, when I had found the Fairy Ring, and met the Queen of the Fairies... (Summary by PG)

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01 - The Fairy Ring (Bryan Daniels)
02 - The Princess with the Sea-Green Hair (Pamela Krantz)
03 - Rose-Marie and the Poupican (Marea Brook)
04 - The Bird at the Window (Marea Brook)
05 - The White Stone of Happiness (Marea Brook)
06 - The Seven Fair Queens of Pirou (Marea Brook)
07 - In the Dwarf’s Palace (Rapunzelina)
08 - The Silver Horn (Chuck Williamson)
09 - The Little White Feather (Shiromi)
10 - The Wild Huntsman (Ted Nugent)
11 - The White Princess (Chuck Williamson)
12 - The Favourite of the Fates (Kirsty Leishman)
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