Original Fairy Tales

Throughout his career as a writer and illustrator of children's books, John Patience has written and illustrated many original 'fairy tales' of his own. Although these are original stories, entirely from John's imagination, they contain many of the familiar elements which are found in traditional fairy stories or fairytales, such as fairies, giants, elves, magic, strange and wonderful creatures etc. which children love so much! This page shows just a few examples.

Happy Endings Series

These were originally published as four individual titles:

  • Dragon Tales - A Book of Dragons
  • Hubble Bubble - A Book of Witches and Wizards
  • Tall Stories - A Book of Giants
  • The Little People - A Book of Fairies, Elves and Dwarves

Each book has 32 pages of short stories and poems, with full colour illustrations.

They were later reprinted in a single, large volume entitled Witches, Wizards and Magical People.

If you are a publisher interested in foreign publication rights, please see details on our dedicated foreign rights web site.

Dragon Tales

Cover of Dragon Tales from the Happy Endings series, written and illustrated by John Patience

Hubble Bubble

Cover of Hubble Bubble from the Happy Endings series, written and illustrated by John Patience


Tall Stories

Cover of Tall Stories from the Happy Endings series, written and illustrated by John Patience

The Little People

Cover of The Little People from the Happy Endings series, written and illustrated by John Patience

 

Dream Time Tales and Enchanted Tales

Each book has 64 pages (last 4 pages blank) of 6 stories and 2 poems.

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Dream Time Tales

Cover of Dream Time Tales written and illustrated by John Patience

Enchanted Tales

Cover of Enchanted Tales, written and illustrated by John Patience

You may also like to look at John's traditional fairy tales.