Princess Hyacinth is bored and unhappy sitting in her palace every day because, unless she is weighed down by specially-made clothes, she will float away, but her days are made brighter when kite-flying Boy stops to say hello.

The tongue-in-cheek "history" of the Euralio-Barodian war, specifically as it affected Princess Hyacinth, her family and friends, and the Wicked Countess Belvane, in a satire of traditional fairy tales

The tongue-in-cheek "history" of the Euralio-Barodian war, specifically as it affected Princess Hyacinth, her family and friends, and the Wicked Countess Belvane, in a satire of traditional fairy tales.