Fairy Stories my Children Love Best of All

What happens when a father becomes his children's storyteller-in-chief, spending years refining his repertoire until only the very best remain? Edgar Dubs Shimer told fairy tales to his own kids night after night, learning through their laughter and wide eyes which stories truly held them. This collection is the result: the ones that survived the ultimate test, bedtime audiences who could walk away, who could protest 'not that one again.' Here are tales where magic carries real weight, where kindness isn't naive and danger isn't sanitized. Some you'll recognize. Others feel like finding a coin in the couch cushions of an old house, something delightful and unexpected. The enduring appeal? These stories weren't chosen by an editor or a committee. They were loved into being by the only audience that ever truly mattered.