Veronika Martenova Charles

"Children's book depicts a young immigrant's journey to Halifax from the Iron Curtain Emma lives on the grey, cold side of the wall, where people speak in whispers and no flowers grow. On the other side there is happiness and colour, but she can never go there. One day, Emma's parents disappear and she is sent to live with her miserable Aunt Lily. She disapproves of Emma's drawing and dashes her niece's dream of becoming an artist. That is, until...

Presents three stories that are adaptations of the classic tale of Cinderella in which a young girl is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, until, despite their efforts to prevent it, she meets a young prince who marries her.

Presents three stories that are adaptations of the classic tale of "Beauty and the Beast" in which through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.

Presents three stories that are adaptations of the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood in which a young girl, thinking that she is visiting her grandmother, is eaten by a wolf and rescued by a hunter who kills the wolf by cutting open his stomach.