A boy's kindness to two small animals one snowy Christmas Eve results in his discovery of the fabled Christmas rose, bringing magical joy to him and his family.
While three bears are away from home, Goldilocks ventures inside their house, tastes their porridge, tries their chairs, and finally falls asleep in Baby Bear's bed.
Based on Malory's fifteenth century Morte d'Arthur, this book presents an idealized Middle Ages, a world filled with violent tests of courage, clamorous and raging battle, adventurous quests, and yearning love of knight and damsel.