When the Princess Rescued the Prince - fantasyREADERS

EXCERPT FROM
The Enchanted Tree
Left alone in the forest, Katryn is befriended by a
little white dove, who shows her a tree with a
magical cupboard of food inside it. She lives
happily with the forest animals till one day the
dove disappears.
Next day when the dove did not appear, Katryn
missed him and began asking her animal friends if they
had seen him.
“Don't worry,” they laughed. “It is springtime.
Probably he has gone to seek a mate.”
“No,” said Katryn, “he would not have left without
bidding me goodbye. Something must have happened to
him.”
Katryn sat down and thought and thought and made a
plan. With the brass key she opened the food cupboard
and took out all the food, every single dish, before closing
the door. She packed herself a lunch, then set the rest of
the dishes on the ground for the animals. Then she opened
the cupboard again.
Magically, the cupboard had filled itself with all new
dishes of different food. “I thought it would,” Katryn said.
“Now, I am going to serve a feast to all the forest animals.
Invite them all to come here right now!”
The birds carried the invitation all over the forest,
and Katryn kept locking and unlocking the cupboard and
setting the dishes on the ground, till she had covered a
large area fit for a great feast.