The Princess and the Bear
Story Stats
Rating: 4
Grade Level: 5, Adult
Page count: 29
Appeared in
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 7
Story Summary
When King Ethelred forms a friendship with a stranger named The Bear, the princess immediately hates him thinking that his counsel is making her father weak. It takes the death of her father and her ascension to the throne to understand the gentle, wise and mysterious nature of The Bear.