"The princess may try seven times to escape By changing her colour and changing her shape." But each time Princess Eliza changes into a blue fish, a yellow chick, a red fox or a black cat the wicked wizard finds her and sets her another horrible task. Will this plucky princess be able to outwit him and escape back to the palace in time to cut her birthday cake?
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Lydia Monks is an award-winning and highly original picture book artist, and her brilliantly coloured collage images have earned her a strong following. In addition to her previous collaboration with Julia Donaldson, SHARING A SHELL (978-1-4050-2048-0), Lydia's other work for Macmillan includes THE SKIPPING-ROPE SNAKE, written by Carol Ann Duffy (978-0-333-99327-9).
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Julia Donaldson is the author of many successful books for children, including the classic THE GRUFFALO, which has won the Smarties Prize and the Blue Peter Award for the Best Book to Read Aloud. THE GRUFFALO'S CHILD was one of the biggest best-sellers of 2004 and won WHS Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Julia has also written many children's plays and songs, and runs regular storytelling and drama workshops. She lives in Glasgow with her family.
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Princess Eliza is having her 7th birthday party when a wicked wizard comes flying through the window, he turns everyone into stone and says he is taking her away to his castle to work for him. A fairy godmother flutters in just in time to give her 7 chances to escape before the fairy godmother is turned to stone to.
Over the next seven days Princess Eliza 'changes her colour and changes her shape" to try to escape from working for the wizard (cleaning all the dried up food on his plates, or mending the holes in his socks made by his LONG toenails)
This is a lovely book, it is not in the same rhyming tradition as Donaldson seems to do with her mainly Axel Scheffler illustrated books, but is still very engaging and my girls were reciting whole pages of it within a couple of days (amd many reads later).
The book concentrates on colour - each day is a different colour, blue, yellow, orange, purple, green and so on, and there are also the days of the week, so there is a nice little lesson under the surface of this
Princess is a very smart cookie, and she ends up saving herself and still getting back to her own castle for cake.
A nice glittery girly book.
Over the next seven days Princess Eliza 'changes her colour and changes her shape" to try to escape from working for the wizard (cleaning all the dried up food on his plates, or mending the holes in his socks made by his LONG toenails)
This is a lovely book, it is not in the same rhyming tradition as Donaldson seems to do with her mainly Axel Scheffler illustrated books, but is still very engaging and my girls were reciting whole pages of it within a couple of days (amd many reads later).
The book concentrates on colour - each day is a different colour, blue, yellow, orange, purple, green and so on, and there are also the days of the week, so there is a nice little lesson under the surface of this
Princess is a very smart cookie, and she ends up saving herself and still getting back to her own castle for cake.
A nice glittery girly book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I ordered this to add to our children's Julia Donaldson collection as they are all wonderful stories and beautifully illustrated. I paid for a hard copy twice and received a paperback.
Amazon sent a long explanation of how and why they can't control what their sellers send????? Great Book. Just don't expect a hard cover version.
Amazon sent a long explanation of how and why they can't control what their sellers send????? Great Book. Just don't expect a hard cover version.
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My daughter is all about witches and wizards and princesses these days, so this book is exactly what she wants. The story is nice. There are couple of nice combination of vocabulary that a 4 year old should know.
The sparkles on every page is a HUGE plus. Even I LOVED it!
If your daughter is into magical stories and sparkles, you should get it. It has been several weeks now and my kid doesn't put this book down.
The sparkles on every page is a HUGE plus. Even I LOVED it!
If your daughter is into magical stories and sparkles, you should get it. It has been several weeks now and my kid doesn't put this book down.
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