THE GIRL WITH A STRING
(A menina do fio)

Stela Barbieri
Ilustrações Fernando Vilela
Publisher:Girafinha, 2006
Size: : 16 x 23cm
Paperback: 48 pages
ISBN: 85-99520-11-3

The story of a princess with a shining string on her head.
Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who was born with a different string on top of her head. It wasn’t hair, it was stronger then steel, shining and very long. It would tangle everywhere giving the girl a heck of a headache. Nothing nor no one could pull the string out of the girl’s head.
As the girl grew up she became a beautiful lady but very cranky and sad. Gentlemens gifts were of no use for the princess who would always refuse these and make fun of the poor gentlemen. But one of them realized she wasn´t doing it out of sheer evilness, she was doing it’cause the thread kept pulling her head back bothering her tremendously.
Decided to help her, he followed the thread untangling knot by knot. When he untangled the last knot the princess felt happy for the first time in her life.
And then they were wed. But the string kept on growing. So the princess decided she would weave and knit beautiful fabrics and clothes out of this thread. Clothes so beautiful people would come from a far just to see the wonderful clothes she´d make..