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Inside The Enchanted Crown

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Inside The Enchanted Crown

The Enchanted Crown was our very first storybook. The pictures match our character prints, so your kid might spot the one they're wearing.

The story

Fynn the dragon guards a sleeping prince. Princess Flora sets out to find the flower that can wake him.

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Fynn the dragon guarding Prince Leon, asleep in the forest.
Fynn guards Prince Leon, asleep under a wicked spell.
Flora and her owl Oliver meeting Fynn in the moonlit forest.
Flora and Oliver come to help.
Snapping plants in the hidden garden, with Oliver caught in a giant pitcher plant.
A giant pitcher plant traps Oliver.
Flora, Fynn, Leon, Oliver and Mariposa together in the sunny forest.
Five friends, one brave adventure.

Behind the scenes

  1. Our son Khoa reading a picture book on the floor in a crown hat.

    It started at bedtime. Every time we spotted the koala in Koalacorn, we'd tell our son Khoa, "Look, it's you!" and he'd light up.

  2. A pencil sketch of Fynn the dragon.

    We learned from scratch. Thang works in analytics and Laura in communications, so months of fabrics, illustrators and factories followed. More than once, we wondered if this was a mid-life crisis.

Fynn the dragon in three stages: a pencil sketch, the first colors and the finished art.
Fynn, from pencil sketch to the dragon in the book.
  1. The cover of The Enchanted Crown.

    December 2024. We launched with this book, after parents' feedback helped us improve our products.

  2. A collage of little ones in Dreambly Me pajamas.

    One year later. More than 1,000 families had our stories at home.

  3. Our family laughing together outside.

    Still at the kitchen table. We dream up every book there, after the kids are asleep.

Fun facts to share at bedtime

  • The snapping plants are real. They came from the Venus flytraps in our home. Real ones snap shut when a bug brushes their trigger hairs twice.

  • Pitcher plants are real too. Bugs slide into their slippery cup, just like Oliver.

  • Owls can't move their eyes. They turn their heads instead, up to three quarters of the way around.

  • Mariposa means butterfly in Spanish, a perfect name for our fairy.

  • Fynn is in two books. He's back in The Lost Moonstone with his cousin Frost.

The heart of the story

When a giant plant traps Oliver and asks for Flora's crown, she doesn't stop to think:

Without hesitation, Flora removed her precious flower crown, the source of her gift to speak with plants, and placed it on the ground.

Ask at bedtime What would you share to help a friend?

The characters (and their forest)

Each character has a print of their own, and so does the magical forest.

Read it together

It's a sturdy board book, with a read-aloud on YouTube and the eBook on Amazon Kindle.

Leave a note for the Dreambly family

Which character did your kid love?