FAIRY TALES CAN COME TRUE

Set in the 50's, in Southern California, the story conveys key elements in the life of a daydreaming child whose desire to fly away to Neverland and become Peter Pan's best friend consumes her very being. Full of imagination, creativity and fun, Nina lives her life in the real world all the while imagining "what might be" in her fantasy world. Find out how her fairy tale came true, with a price.

Three California girls-Marie, Nina and Mo-sometimes three stooges, sometimes three musketeers, but sisters forever. Nina, the middle child, often escapes to a world of fantasy, sometimes to get comfortable in her own mind and sometimes to cope with her immediate family members. Full of imagination, creativity, and fun, Nina embraces both "what is" and "what might be" with undoubting enthusiasm. Fairy Tales Can Come True is Nina's story. It reflects her humor, shows her frustrations with the limitations of reality, and shares the trials and tribulations of growing up as part of a widely diverse bevy of females in the 1950s. The story conveys key elements in Nina's early life as a daydreaming child whose desire to fly away to Neverland consumes her very being. Come join her journey, and enjoy the flight. Find out how her fairy tale came true, with a price.

An established artist of thirty plus years, Linda was taught to draw at an early age by her Disney Artist Grandfather, George Drake (hired by Walt Disney in 1929 to hire and train new artists for the fledgling Disney Studio). Linda, an avid reader of illustrated books, the classics such as Treasure Island and her favorite fairytale books, became encouraged toward becoming an artist at an early age. Now an independent fine art professional, Linda's paintings have been published in books and magazines and exhibited worldwide. Her painting of the Peter Pan Statue hangs in the Peter Pan Wing of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London. Linda has illustrated two books for N. D. Mansour, retired CEO of Mattel Corporation. Fairy Tales Can Come True, A Trilogy is Linda's first original art in writing.