Fairy Tales Can Come True
Sisters Marie, Nina, and Mo are three sisters who are bonded forever. Nina, the middle sister, is an adventurous, imaginative, and creative girl who often lives in her imaginary world to escape the realities of life.
Nina knows she is not as smart as her older sister or as important as her younger sister. She pretends that her seagull friend is really Peter Pan in a bird’s body and that some night he will come to her house and take her to Neverland.
It happens one day when her sister, Mo, decides to run away after Nina tells her that Peter Pan and Tinkerbell do not exist. Nina finds a magic book about fairies in an alley on her way to school.
The principal takes it away and tells Nina that she is different than other children. Coming home to an empty house, Nina cries herself to sleep only to be awakened by the screeching of her seagull friend, who transforms into the magic boy she had met at Cabrillo Beach.
Fairy Tales Can Come True: The Beginning is Linda S. Gunn’s poignant novel about growing up, sibling love, and discovery.
Three California girls—Marie, Nina, and Mo—sometimes three stooges, sometimes three musketeers, but sisters forever.
Nina, the middle child, often escapes to a world of fantasy, sometimes to get comfortable in her own mind and sometimes to cope with her immediate family members.
Full of imagination, creativity, and fun, Nina embraces both “what is” and “what might be” with undoubting enthusiasm. Fairy Tales Can Come True is Nina’s story. It reflects her humor, shows her frustrations with the limitations of reality, and shares the trials and tribulations of growing up as part of a widely diverse bevy of females in the 1950s.
The story conveys key elements of Nina’s early life as a daydreaming child whose desire to fly away to Neverland consumes her very being. Come join her journey and enjoy the flight. Find out how her fairy tale came true, with a price.