The Four Charms -a fairy tale of inner wisdom

By Karem Barratt

It is Princess Rebecca's 11th birthday and she's about to become an apprentice and start her training as proper ruler and guide to her people. Princess Rebecca is worried and unsure, as she feels she's neither brave or smart enough to do a good job, but soon finds out that becoming an apprentice is the least of her problems. All her family and friends have been turned into stones by the Wicked Witch and she has until sunset to find the four magical charms that the witch is after. In a one day adventure, Princess Rebecca will have to find a wise frog, face the perils of the dangerous path, try to win the favour of the Lucky Clover and decipher the mysterious message of the key that opens from the inside, before is too late and her loved ones stay as rocks forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karem Barratt
• Release date: Jun 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301204311

Karem Barratt

Karem has been writing since age eight, when she wrote her first story about a what some may call a tropical version of Heidi.Since then she has filled a few dozens of notebooks with wacky, weird, dark, happy, sad, spiritual, down-to-earth stories, poems, guides, essays and reflections. Fortunately for the trees, she's now writing them on her PC. For a time Karem thought about reaching enlightment, moving to India and finding a Guru -but then she realized that a nice experimental cooking session could be as spiritual as three hours of meditation and decided to find the Divine down in the everyday, and not on the top of the mountain. She did, however, trained as a spiritual councillor/coach and Interfaith Minister as a practical way to channel her desire to serve. Before that she studied and worked in Fashion Merchandising; Translation; ESL teaching in her native Venezuela (with a Tarot business on the side); got a Humanities BA in the in the UK; opened several Spanish clubs for kids; and has had a few gigs as a ghost-writer. Nowadays Karem lives in England with her extremely patient husband, cheeky eight-year-old daughter and two grumpy guinea pigs and has decided to take out all those notebooks from the dusty boxes and send them out into the world.

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The Four Charms

A fairy tale of inner wisdom

By Karem Barratt

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Princess Rebecca woke up with a knot in her stomach. She was feeling cold and woozy. She left her bed wanting – really, truly wanting, that it was not August, nor the seventh, nor her birthday. Now, usually Princess Rebecca was all for birthdays. She actually had been known to drive people crazy, talking about her birthday weeks and even months before the event, planning games, stories, meals and guests lists. But today she was turning eleven, and that changed everything, for, according to the rules of the kingdom, she would no longer be a child. Today she would become an apprentice.

The princess washed her face and teeth, changed into her clothes, brushed her hair and practiced different faces in front of the mirror, until she found the right expression that would disguise her fear. Last night, as she practiced her dancing in her bedroom, she had had asked the stars shining outside her window to give her bravery and cleverness. Today she had to act as if her wish had come true. She sighed and walked towards the palace’s great hall, where she knew her parents and all the court would be waiting, hiding behind curtains and chairs, to give her a surprise birthday breakfast.

Maybe being an apprentice would not be too bad, Rebecca thought, as she walked