The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess

A king and a queen long for children, but children do not arrive, and so they ask an engineer and a witch to create children for them. The engineer and the witch create a little wooden robot and a log princess. Each night, the log princess changes back into a log when she falls asleep, and she only awakes to princess form when magic words are said over her. One day, the magic words are not said, and the maid thinks the log in the princess' bed is nothing but a log...and that is the start of a little adventure...

I like this gentle little story very much.