Once On A Time is a wonderful fairytale written by Alexander Alan Milne who was also the author of Winnie-the-Pooh. The book describes the events of the armed conflict between the two kingdoms of Euralia and Barodia as well as the domestic situation and political intrigues there. The author has created absolutely wonderful characters, very believable and bright, similar to real people so that the children get used to the real life when reading fairy-tales. In this story we meet a princess who is very strong-minded, a handsome prince who is at the same time vain, a witchcraft which is humorous in many ways, malefactor who is not so evil as he seems to be at first, a good kind who is not very good in fact, an evil king who is not bad. Children learn to understand that the first impressions about the person or stereotypes are not usually right. The plot of the tale is not complicated. It starts with the King of Barodia who gets a pair of boots as a birthday present and because of his habit to fly over the palace of the King of Euralia when he has his breakfast provokes the war. Both children and adults will find this fairytale useful and interesting.