Welcome to my imaginary world of Faraway Castle! I couldn’t be happier to write those words, for with this series I’m satisfying a lifelong love of fairy tales and magical creatures. My mother gets the credit for introducing me to fairy tales through one of her childhood books, this battered copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, published in 1934, when she was one year old. I read these stories many, many times, even colored in some of the line-drawing illustrations . . . and the book