By always doing the right thing at the wrong time, Goofy eventually succeeds in making the princess laugh.

Petra and Daniel have little use for the quaint fishing Village their parents have forced them to visit on holiday. They don't know that this Village has a legacy of Dragons. Much more fun than exploring museums or picturesque ruins, a small stone on a lonely beach offers them the chance to perform magic, match wits with elementals, steal hearts, go to war, write poetry, escape from a pirate, and sail "The Laughing Princess." Their dull, rainy world will never be the same. From the pen of the celebrated author of The Astreya Trilogy, these fantastic and slightly melancholy stories are sure to resonate with the questions you carry deep down inside as you go about your everyday life.

Growing up without humor, the Princess becomes more and more morose, finally locking herself in her royal bedchamber and refusing to leave. The King in desperation decrees a Royal Laugh-off to make his daughter happy.

Princess Debra lived with her parents in beautiful Castleland. Princess Debra was very lovely. She loved her parents very much. They loved her dearly. Princess Debra smiled sweetly, hummed and sang as she went about her princess duties. But her parents had noticed she had never laughed. The king and queen decided to make a decree. It said that any young lad who could make their daughter laugh would win her hand in marriage. Will it be a prince or a shepherd lad that wins her hand in marriage? Read this fascinating story and find out the surprise ending.

"The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales" is a fascinating collection of fairy tales and folk tales, presented by an American folklorist Parker Fillmore to demonstrate the incredible vigor and the artistic inventiveness of the Jugoslav imagination to the western reader. The tradition of the Hungarian folk tales was greatly influenced by Oriental and Northern as well as Slavic myths, which have made it incredibly rich and exciting to the reader of any time—first published in 1921.