The Princess and the She-Wolf

By Ana Folhadela

Children's book with three stories, The Princess and the She-Wolf, Awakening and Voyage to the Buried Archive. This book integrated the Reading Olympiad and is a part of the National Reading Plan. Illustrated by Luiz Darocha.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ana Folhadela
• Release date: Jul 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781547591145

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THE PRINCESS AND THE SHE-WOLF

Illustration by Luiz Darocha

In loving memory of my cousin, Luís Folhadela

THE PRINCESS AND THE SHE-WOLF

On a very cold, very grey, very rainy, sad, far-away winter day, years and years ago, a very pretty and sweet princess, who had the greenest and glossiest of eyes, left the house to enter a dark, humid swamp.

Her parents, the King and the Queen, the wealthiest and most worried, spent many years searching for the princess through many different worlds; they cried, more than once, the thickest of tears, longing for her to come back in a hurry. It seemed for them that she had been gone for so long. It seemed for them that she would still be gone for so long.

On a rainy day, during a hazel autumn, less than many years ago; when the winter’s cold gloves could already be foreseen through raindrops caressing Earth’s face, an old sickly man arrived. This man came only to stay the night, too close to the gates of a too old castle.

The rain was not letting up: it poured like blades cutting through the dry leaves; to later on be swept by the wind, who cast them away like chunks of skin against the trees. And the rain glued itself to the tree trunks, and the tree trunks embraced the rain as if it was