Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories

Project Gutenberg's Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories, by Edith Howes This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories Author: Edith Howes Illustrator: Alicea Polson Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20366] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WONDERWINGS *** Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories by EDITH HOWES Author of "The Sun's Babies," "Fairy Rings," "Stewart Island," "Where the Bell Birds Chime," "Marlborough Sounds," etc. Illustrated by Alicea Polson Whitcombe & Tombs Limited Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and Wellington, N.Z. Melbourne and London. CONTENTS Page Wonderwings 7 The Magic Mirror 17 Fairy Tenderheart 31 "Come then," said Wonderwings. She took the little fairy's hand and up they rose into the clear air. Wonderwings Poppypink sat up in bed and yawned. "Why is everybody getting up so early?" she asked. "Is it a holiday?" The older fairies were dressing themselves and brushing their long fine hair. "Wonderwings is coming to see us," they said. "Jump up, little Poppypink." "Who is Wonderwings?" she asked.