What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

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The Winter Flower and Other Fairy Stories
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SOLVED. Children's Fantasy Short Stories. Read about 1997-98 but probably older than that. Fairy tale-esque short stories, usually with female MC's. Title was the title of one of the short stories "and other fairy tales/stories." Spoiler.
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The story I remember best was called The Little Black Box and it was about a young princess with three older step-sisters who were generally mean to her. She liked to dance with the shadows because she couldn't go to the ball. One night, an old witch gave her sisters a magic box that granted wishes and would only work if all of them were allowed to use it. The oldest stepsister wished to marry a man with power, the middle stepsister wished to marry a man who could dance, and the youngest stepsister wished for chocolate? I think and then broke the box to the MC couldn't use it. The protagonist pieced it back together wished for the shadows to come to life.
SPOILER: Turns out the shadows were people under a curse and she had freed them, She ends up marrying the shadow prince and her stepsisters get cursed versions of their wishes for being mean.
The book had a slightly textured hard cover that was a solid, sort of robin's egg blue color, and it had black and white illustrations inside that were consistently by the same person.