"Pieda's Tales delightfully explores the awakening soul within childhood, always seeking for the wisdom that was born with us. As in Le Petit Prince, Pieda's life blossoms with that ancient wisdom that helps us travel far." - Caitlin Matthews, author of Diary of a Soul Doctor, The Barefoot Book of Princesses and Singing the Soul Back Home. STORIES OF WONDER The stories you are about to read are born from a place of magic and dream, a place where everything flows together, the light and the dark, the good and the bad, the earth and the stars. They are stories of escape, of melting into the place where there is neither time nor space; but most of all they are stories of joy, embodying the sense of release that can only come from an opening of the imagination for all who believe in magic - and who, in the end, does not? - They will be familiar. For those who may feel they do not quite belong in this world, they will be familiar. They are stories as old as time, as old as human beings and older. They are as old as imagination and it is to the imagination that they speak.

They are for everyone who still carries a spark of wonder within them, or who are prepared to re-ignite that spark if by chance it has gone out. They remind me irresistibly of the innocence and wisdom of St Exuperey's Le Petit Prince. I hope you find as much depth and love and joy in them as I did when I first read them. Welcome to the stories of Pieda. - John Matthews - Oxford, 2016 "The subtitle of this remarkable book states that Pieda's tales are 'Stories Old As Time, ' but readers will find them surprisingly contemporary. Indeed, they are the stuff that myths are made of, stories that never were but always are." - Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.

, co-author of Personal Mytholgy".