The Princess and the Wizard - Lydia Monks, Julia Donaldson

Advantages: Little girls will love it
Disadvantages: Little boys will hate it

...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 ... Read review