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Genre/Form: | Children's stories Fairy tales Children's picture books Pictorial works Juvenile fiction Juvenile fiction Pictorial worksJuvenile fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Abie Longstaff; Lauren Beard |
ISBN: | 9780552567770 0552567779 |
OCLC Number: | 876286642 |
Description: | 30 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm |
Responsibility: | Abie Longstaff ; illustrated by Lauren Beard. |
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"A modern setting, plenty of humour (and some real rhyming gems), diverse characters and positive gender roles mix with intertextual references to create a combination which will delight young fairytale fans while appeasing parents who might be concerned about the old-fashioned values of traditional tales." * Library Mice * "This is a clever series - each time you re-read it with your child (or with a class) they will pick up something fresh; a reference to yet another fairytale. The clever and witty writing is set off excellently by the illustrations which bring a contemporary feel to the old favourites." * Parents in Touch * "It is amusing, witty, very colourful with lots of flitter, and always interesting to have a new spin on a traditional fairy tale." * The School Librarian * Read more...

