Once upon a time, in a faraway land lived a king and a queen who wanted to have children. Thus, they were delighted when the queen gave birth to a little girl. They named her Aurora and threw a big party for her christening, to which they invited the kingdom fairies. Unfortunately, a very old and very mean fairy had not been invited et decided to get her revenge by cursing the little princess...
The collection "Once Upon a Time" offers a new and richly illustrated version of the most famous fairytales.
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Once upon a time, there lived a king and a queen who wished for a child of their own for a long time. So when the queen gave birth to a beautiful princess, they were very happy.
They invited important guests and all the fairies of the kingdom to their castle for a celebration in honour of the child's birth.
One after the other, as godmother, the fairies looking at the new born princess, gave her gifts of beauty, grace, goodness, and intelligence.
But the king and queen had forgotten to invite the wicked fairy...
