Magician's Daughter, The

These delightfully quirky stories are a unique blend of folktale and fairytale. The magic begins with Old Pipes and the Dryad. When an old man lets a dryad out of her tree, she rewards him by making him younger and capable once again of playing his pipes. However, there is one individual who is not pleased with all of this: the Echo-dwarf! When The Magician's Daughter takes over her father’s business, she must deal with troublesome clients and devious rivals. Only with the help of her unreliable magical retainers can she hope to solve her problems. The gnome, Huckleberry, lives with his father, Old Riddler, who teaches humans through riddles. Is Huckleberry ready to create his own riddles? In The Griffin and the Minor Canon, a terrifying Griffin appears in the village. The frightened villagers send their young Minor Canon to face the Griffin and find out what he wants. The Bee-Man of Orn is happy living in a small hut with his friends the bees until the arrival of a Sorcerer, who informs him that his strange way of living has come about due to the fact that he's been "transformed". But transformed from what? The Bee-Man is determined to find out. Magic springs to life in each whimsical imaginative story! Knowing how important language development is to success in school, educator AnnaLisa Bodtker created alenbeebooks. Audiobooks enhance listening skills, increase vocabulary, and allow children to enjoy books above their reading levels. Alenbeebooks selects well written stories and poems, that are narrated in an engaging manner, to promote good language skills. copyright 2025 (P) alenbeebooks AnnaLisa Bodtker is the narrator of the popular audiobooks When We Were Very Young, Kitty-Cat Tales, Christmas in the Forest, and Brownie in Christmas Land. For more quality audiobooks, please visit www.alenbeebooks.com.