On the northern slope of the island of Serendipity is a small, wonderful kingdom called the Land of Later. In this kingdom there lived a young, beautiful princess who everyone simply called Princess. The castle was governed by the king's simple rules. One of those rules was that when you woke in the morning you cleaned your room and made your bed. Princess hated rules. Most of all she hated doing any thing at any time unless it was much, much later. This morning, as on others, she woke, got dressed and went outside and took a walk instead of cleaning her room. Princess walked deep into the forest on a magical place path near the castle. The trees spread their boughs forming a beautiful canopy over her head and the velvet-moss path felt like plush carpet beneath her feet. "I should start back before I get lost," she whispered to a bunny on the path. Then she laughed and laughed, "Oh, poof! Oh, piffle!" she laughed as she tossed her hair, "! I will go back but just, just a little later!" It was on the journey that Princess met a unicorn called Morgan. And it was on this journey with the help of Morgan that she learned that doing things now is always much better than later. Ages 5-9
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