In the Fairy-Tale Forest, anything can happen. And it does! Who has stolen the king's happiness? The princess ventures into the Fairy-Tale Forest to look for it. She meets a friend with green ears who can hear what people and animals are thinking. She meets a wolf and a dragon. Far away on the Deserted Island lives the witch, who can turn everyone into stone. Join the princess in the Fairy-Tale Forest (with some twenty-mile slippers on, if you can find some!) and find out what happens!
Author
Ulf Gottfrid Stark was a Swedish author and screenwriter (he adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen). Stark collaborated with the illustrators Anna Höglund and Mati Lepp. From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books Svenska barnboksakademin. In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize. Stark was born and grew up in Stureby, Stockholm Municipality, which place features in several of his books. Stark's interest in writing started early; during his time at secondary school he was introduced to writing by his classmate Peter Curman, and in 1964 he wrote his first poetry Ett hål till livet. Following this, Stark's interest in writing for a career was greatly encouraged.
