# Fairies and the Christmas Child

An audiobook by Lilian Gask, read by LibriVox volunteers (3 h 53 min, English).

The worst of being a Christmas Child is that you don’t get birthday presents, but only Christmas ones. Old Naylor, who was Father’s coachman, and had a great gruff voice that came from his boots and was rather frightening, used to ask how I expected to grow up without proper birthdays, and I thought I might have to stay little always. When I told Father this he laughed, but a moment later he grew quite grave. “Listen, Chris,” he said. And then he took me on his knee - I was a small chap then - and told me things that made me forget old Naylor, and wish and wish that Mother could have stayed with us. The angels had wanted her, Father explained; well, we wanted her too, and there were plenty of angels in heaven, anyway. When I said this Father gave me a great squeeze and put me down, and I tried to be glad that I was a Christmas child. But I wasn’t really until a long time afterwards, when I had found the Fairy Ring, and met the Queen of the Fairies... (Summary by PG)

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## Chapters

1. 01 - The Fairy Ring (18:40): https://archive.org/download/fairies_christmaschild_1202_librivox/christmaschild_01_gask_64kb.mp3
2. 02 - The Princess with the Sea-Green Hair (17:52): https://archive.org/download/fairies_christmaschild_1202_librivox/christmaschild_02_gask_64kb.mp3
3. 03 - Rose-Marie and the Poupican (17:36): https://archive.org/download/fairies_christmaschild_1202_librivox/christmaschild_03_gask_64kb.mp3
4. 04 - The Bird at the Window (18:06): https://archive.org/download/fairies_christmaschild_1202_librivox/christmaschild_04_gask_64kb.mp3
5. 05 - The White Stone of Happiness (15:44): https://archive.org/download/fairies_christmaschild_1202_librivox/christmaschild_05_gask_64kb.mp3
6. 06 - The Seven Fair Queens of Pirou (22:33): https://archive.org/download/fairies_christmaschild_1202_librivox/christmaschild_06_gask_64kb.mp3
7. 07 - In the Dwarf’s Palace (17:44): https://archive.org/download/fairies_christmaschild_1202_librivox/christmaschild_07_gask_64kb.mp3
8. 08 - The Silver Horn (18:06): https://archive.org/download/fairies_christmaschild_1202_librivox/christmaschild_08_gask_64kb.mp3
9. 09 - The Little White Feather (17:00): https://archive.org/download/fairies_christmaschild_1202_librivox/christmaschild_09_gask_64kb.mp3
10. 10 - The Wild Huntsman (23:45): https://archive.org/download/fairies_christmaschild_1202_librivox/christmaschild_10_gask_64kb.mp3
11. 11 - The White Princess (24:38): https://archive.org/download/fairies_christmaschild_1202_librivox/christmaschild_11_gask_64kb.mp3
12. 12 - The Favourite of the Fates (21:08): https://archive.org/download/fairies_christmaschild_1202_librivox/christmaschild_12_gask_64kb.mp3