Excerpt from The Spring Cleaning: As Told by Queen Crosspatch OF course you don't understand what I mean by my Spring Clean ing. That is because you know next to nothing about Fairy ways. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
In the final Queen Cross Patch story, the fairy queen relates how hard she and fairies work to clear away the frost and wake up the natural world for Spring, and their special mission to help a special primrose garden bloom to benefit a poor little girl who sells flowers.