The Republic of a Thousand Wonders

"Hey, fairy tales! Where are the fairy tales???"

That's how Soeli would call out when he went to bed. Soeli loved fairy tales very much, but in his opinion they ended in the blink of an eye, and he never got enough of them. The little boy wanted a long fairy tale – long, all the way to the end of the world, like those books his sister read, which were called novels.

And the grandfather of fairy tales, who never spoiled the little ones' mood, wrote this long fairy tale not only for Soeli, but for all Albanian children…