The Blue Bird for Children

A room brightens like day, and two children in their nightshirts scramble to the window—not for presents, but to watch the rich children feast.

On Christmas Eve, in a poor woodcutter’s cottage beside an ancient forest, Tyltyl and his little sister Mytyl find joy in the happiness glowing across the way. Then a strange old woman in green appears and asks for a blue bird: it stands for happiness, she says, and her sick little girl needs it to get well. The children are sent out into a world where even the familiar may hold marvels, and where finding what the fairy wants may be harder than they can imagine. Where will their search lead—and can they find the bird?

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