Molly Walraven: Real Fairy Stories

By Harriet Myrick

Molly Walraven: Real Fairy Stories takes you to a happy place in a child's world of adventures and play. Molly Walraven finds fairies in root-tree caves, rose bushes, creeks, and places where she plays and creates. Molly has a wonderful imagination. Please join her now, and enjoy these stories and the childhood that still lives in you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9798887937397

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Molly Walraven

Real Fairy Stories

Harriet Myrick

Copyright © 2023 Harriet Myrick

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2023

ISBN 979-8-88793-740-3 (pbk)

ISBN 979-8-88793-739-7 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

The Streetcar Fairy

The Root-Tree Fairies

Todi, the Queen of the Root Fairies

The Mud-Creek Fairies

The Rose Bush Fairies

The Honeybee Fairies

Mrs. Gamble's Garden Fairies

Curious Climbing

Fairy Breads

About the Author

Molly Walraven

Real Fairy

Stories

Harriet Myrick

1

The Streetcar Fairy

Molly Walraven was eighty years old this year, and her clear blue eyes were a match for her sharp memory and her ability to entertain children. She could tell stories for hours, and the children, oh, the children, never got tired listening to her chirp-out stories about fairies that she had known in her life. These stories are for all children now and of the future.

Molly was seven years old the first time she saw a real live fairy. She was riding on an open streetcar going across a viaduct (a bridge) to downtown Dallas, Texas, with her grandmother. The sun was coming in the open window of the streetcar, warming Molly and her Mema. There were very few people riding that day, and Molly was looking at all the tall buildings across the Trinity River, especially the one with the flying red horse on top of it. Molly saw in the corner of the streetcar window a tiny fairy taking in the warm sun…a real live little fairy! Molly held her breath and tapped Mema on her arm.

Look, Mema, she whispered.

Mema responded,