Adira is a young writer who loves imagining “what if?” questions and turning them into stories. She enjoys reading fantasy, solving tricky problems, and creating characters with big personalities and even bigger adventures. She has always dreamed of magic and dragons and has always used every chance to include the magic in her stories.

She has written many short stories over the years including a remix of the Little Red Riding Hood and The Little Brown Bear. Goldilocks and the Fairy Cubs is her first published short chapter book. She hopes to write more stories that add fresh twists to the fairy tales she grew up with.

Adira first wrote this story as a school assignment — but she had so many ideas that she kept expanding it. What was meant to be a short piece quickly expanded into chapters and whole new places to explore. 

Every time she asked, "Is this too long?" she was reminded that stories only feel long if they are boring. So she kept writing until the adventure felt right. 

Favorite part: Imagining the world and testing out different looks for the Fairy Cub Palace.

Hardest part: Deciding where to end the story — because there were so many possible next adventures!