The Little Lame Prince: Rewritten for Young Readers by Margaret Waters

The most beautiful prince in the world, born to a kingdom that adored him. But on the day of his christening, a careless noblewoman drops him at the top of a marble staircase, and something inside him breaks. He never walks again. Confined to a tower, Prince Dolor grows up in silence, seen by no one, knowing nothing of the kingdom that belongs to him. Until his mysterious godmother appears with an enchanted traveling cloak, and the boy who cannot walk learns to fly. Cloaked in invisibility, he journeys across his kingdom in secret, watching his future subjects, learning what suffering and joy really mean. What he discovers there transforms him more than any throne could. This is the story of how a crippled child becomes a wise king not by strength, but by understanding. One of the great Victorian children's tales, a story about the courage that lives in the heart rather than the legs, and the strange magic of learning to see what truly matters.