Dawnene K Donikowski

Return of the Faerie Queen Dawnene K Donikowski

For Ana Emli's 8th birthday, she visits Great, Great Grandpa Casey in the mountains of Arkansas. The imaginative, little girl is convinced that she must become somebody else while there because of all the new "firsts" she will encounter. Ana Emli has never slopped pigs, gathered eggs, drawn water from a well, or been in a place where the clocks show the time as 9:00, but it's really only 8:00. Unbeknownst to all the humans, the entire Casey Woodland Faerie Kingdom has been anxiously awaiting the return of their beloved Faerie Queen who was cruelly taken from them 104 years previously. This is a tale of nature, of family legacy, of endearing imagination, and of old people becoming "star-kissed" as they view life through the eyes of a child again.