The Boy and the Fairy
— A story about childhood, imagination and what only the heart can see
An unusual fairy, a boy, and a world where the line between reality and imagination becomes almost invisible.
“The Boy and the Fairy” is a gentle story about growing up, feelings and the power of kindness — written for children, but also for grown-ups who have not forgotten how it feels to believe in wonders.
- Publisher
- Luka Books
- Year
- 2020
A child’s heart matters most. The world rests on it. Both the human world and the fairy one.
What if a child travels far away only to discover that what they were looking for was at home all along?
In a big house there lives an unusual boy. He plays the piano, paints, speaks several languages and has almost everything a child could wish for — everything except the thing he needs most: time with the people he loves. Lonely and hurt by family relationships he does not understand, one night the boy wishes he could grow up as fast as possible, believing that grown-ups find life easier to bear. And then a fairy appears at his window.
The hidden Fairy Town and an unusual task
The fairy takes him to a wondrous world where he meets the guardian fairy Anđelina and is given a seemingly simple job: to hand out little jars of miraculous fairy honey to the inhabitants. That task soon turns into a moving journey through very different destinies:
- Beskrila — a fairy who turned rejection into her greatest strength.
- The old fairy man — a wise being trapped in his own sorrow.
- Gromlina — an unpredictable inhabitant from the very top of the mountain.
Truths about the world of grown-ups
Through the stories of the unusual inhabitants of Fairy Town, the boy begins to put the puzzle together and discovers truths about the world of grown-ups that he could not understand before. The greatest challenge waits for him at the very end of the road, because the last jar of fairy honey holds the most important story of all. His own.
A book that heals family relationships
“The Boy and the Fairy” is a moving, fairy-tale-like short novel that speaks bravely about what so often goes unsaid between children and parents. The story gently opens up themes that matter to every family:
- How do you make sense of the secrets and hidden wounds of your own family?
- How do you get through loneliness, accept difference and carry hard moments more easily?
- How do you find the shortcut back to your parents’ hearts?