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The Canary Prince

Story Stats

Rating: 3
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 7
Categories: Fable, Folk Tale, Italian

Author

Italo
Calvino

Appeared in

Italian Fables

Story Summary

A wretched Queen banishes her beautiful stepdaughter to a high tower but a kindly witch gives her a magic book with the ability to turn her lover into a canary so that he may fly to her.