The Firelight Fairy Book

"What could be the matter? Had the fairies all gone away . . . were the doors of Fairyland all locked? Where, where, where were all the new stories -- and why, why, why didn't people write them?"

These were the questions young Henry asked himself, having exhausted all the libraries and bookstores in his search for evermore fairy tales to read -- so delighted was he by their wonder, magic and airy improbabilities.

Yet the answer to these beseeching questions would come from the very pen of this famous American naturalist and writer, Henry Beston . . . in the form of such wonderful jaunts into mystic and transformed lands as "The Queen of Lantern Land, "The City Under the Sea," and "Prince Sneeze" -- about a royal lad whose troublesome nose threatens disaster