The Wide-Awake Princess

The Wide-Awake Princess by E. D. Baker, and its sequel Unlocking the Spell.

Once upon a time, there were a king and queen whose first daughter, Gwendolyn, had been cursed to death, mitigated only to a sleep of a hundred years, to be broken by the princely kiss of her true love.  So when they had another daughter, Annabella, they beg a fairy godmother to protect her.  The fairy godmother gives her magical anti-magic powers, so that she does not receive all the traditional gifts of beauty, grace, etc, and furthermore, anyone she touches loses their magical attributes.  Such as princessly beauty from a fairy godmother. . . .
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fairy tales philosophy

Sometimes you retell a single fairy tales.  Sometimes you stuff a whole bunch in. . .

The first one, if done competently, can always be played comically or dramatically.  The second kind -- well, it depends.  Most of the stories set in a land where fairy tales are true are set in land where only a small handful of the best known tales come true, and keep on doing it furiously all the time.
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