The Fairy's New Year Gift

by  Emilie Poulsson (Adapted)

Two little boys, Carl and Phillip, were at play one day when a Fairy suddenly appeared before them and said: "I have been sent to give you New Year presents," and she handed to each child a package, and in an instant was gone.

The boys opened the packages and found in them two beautiful books, with pages as pure and white as the snow when it first falls.