The Princess and the Wizard - Julia Donaldson, Lydia Monks

...trouble tracking it down on the high street and one store even asked me if it existed. I managed to get hold of it in Waterstones in the end and it was worth the hunt. Story This story is about a little princess that is having a birthday party. Just as the party starts a wicked wizard turns up and asks why he is not invited to her party. She he informs him that he was no invited because wizards turn people to stone. He informs her that this is ...
...as he turns to the princess to turn her to stone the princess's fairy godmother turns up and says a spell to help the princess and at which point the wizard turns the fairy godmother into stone. He then takes the princess to his castle and locks her in his cellar. In the morning he opens the door and says he will let her escape but he will count 100 and if he finds her she has to come back. So the princess runs outside and changes herself into a ...

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Review of The Princess and the Wizard - Julia Donaldson, Lydia Monks

The Princess and The Wizard - another wonderful book by Julia Donaldson. This is another one of my daughter's faves although perhaps the story is a little bit long for her at the moment but she loves the pictures, especially the glittery ones. It's the story of Princess Eliza, who gets captured & whisked away (on her 7th birthday of all days!) by a wicked wizard who likes turning people to stone. Luckily before she is taken away, her fairy godmother ...
...colour and changing her shape'. The wizard isn't impressed and replies 'changing her colour and changing her shape will never help Princess Eliza escape'. So Princess Eliza gets seven chances to escape and each day she changes herself into something new, such as a blue fish, yellow chick, green grasshopper... But the wizard always finds her and takes her back to his castle to do some horrible work for him. On her final chance to escape, Eliza realises ...

Keelar 19.08.2008 · Read full review
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