Queen Silver-Bell

Queen Silver-Bell is the first in a series of four children's books by Frances Hodgson Burnett with illustrations by Harrison Cady


In the first book the queen of the fairies, Queen Silver-Bell loses her 'temper' (which most people do not know is really a fairy  and becomes known from then on as Queen Crosspatch. She knows that she will never find her temper again until she has done something that would make people—particularly children—believe in fairies as they used to "once upon a time" and so she decides to get a 'respectable' person to write the stories down as she tells them.