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    City Faerie Tales
    City Faerie Tales
    City Faerie Tales
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    City Faerie Tales

    By R. Thomas Whitehouse

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    "City Faerie Tales" is a collection of Modern Fairy Tales for children and their parents to read and talk about together. Each of the six delightfully written and illustrated stories has a message about the modern world, the natural world and how to best live in both."City Faerie Tales" are allegorical stories with life lesso

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Whitehouse
    Release dateMay 28, 2019
    ISBN9780646804743
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