Excerpt from The True Annals of Fairyland in the Reign of King Cole<br><br>If you wish to get to the kingdom over which Old King Cole once reigned, you must be a very good little boy or girl, and listen quietly to any one who tells you a fairy story. Then at night, perhaps, when you lie on your little bed, and the stars are shining with friendly eyes down upon you, some one will come and take you on the back of the wind to this happy, happy place. It will not take you very long to get there, but you will want to stay there for ever and ever and listen to the wonderful tales there told.<br><br>Or if you like you can make a kingdom in your own home like that of Old King Cole, a kingdom without a palace and without a throne, but a kingdom of happy hearts and happy faces - with no ill-tempered words and no unkindness or rude behaviour. That is what Old King Cole always used to say to the ambassadors who came to him to find out how he managed things. Make your children happy and good, he used to say, and you won't have any more trouble. The kingdom which is the greatest of all is the kingdom of the happy children.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.