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The Children of Tilford Fortune

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 4, 5, Adult
Page count: 12
Categories: Fairy Tale

Author

Christopher
Rowe

Appeared in

Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold

Story Summary

Tilford Fortune is a good father in a world were bad things happen. When he takes sick, he gives each of his three children something to take into the world to sell. The first two sell there objects but the third child thinks it more important to her brother and sister to keep her object and keep the three of them together.