Wishing for a Princess

A prince in search of the girl of his dreams falls into the trap of a perfidious fortune-teller, who will stop at nothing to attain her sinister aims. She transforms herself into the longed-for princess, but the spell is broken and… read the story to find out what happens.
Illustration from one of the thirty-one stories present in the first collection of “Fairytales and Fables Never Told”.

Biography

Alessio Sgrò was born in a town in the province of Rome, in 1973. A dreamer, he found himself by mistake, after various adventures, with a law degree and, almost a decade later, he still works in the legal field.
In February 2012 he self-published his first book “Fairytales and Fables Never Told”, with thirty-one stories, and six months later, another collection with twenty fables.
In particular, in 2012, he self-published in Italian, the fable “Wishing for a Princess”, contained in the first collection, which was later translated into Spanish (2014) and English (2015). In 2013 and 2014, he self-published in Italian, six illustrated fables with various and unusual characters.