Franklin and Luna and the Book of Fairy Tales - Hardcover

Campbell, Jen; Harnett, Katie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500651752 ISBN 13: 9780500651759

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2019

Synopsis

A new adventure where Franklin and Luna follow their friend the tortoise into a dusty fairy-tale kingdom. Who will they meet there?

Franklin and Luna are back again and this time it’s Franklin’s birthday! Luna and all the villagers are planning a surprise party. While the party is being set up, Luna takes Franklin book shopping, and Luna’s tortoise, Neil, finds a padlocked book of fairy tales and can’t help picking the lock. But when he peers inside, the book swallows him whole! Franklin and Luna dive into the book to rescue Neil and tumble into a cobwebbed forest where they meet dusty fairy-tale characters who have been trapped inside the pages for hundreds of years.

In this new Franklin and Luna adventure, the adorable duo meet three pig architects, a wolf with a New Age attitude, and a very bored princess. Desperate to be brought to life, these fairy-tale characters join Franklin and Luna on their hunt for Neil, realizing that the only way to escape the book is to trek all the way through it. Find out if Franklin and Luna find Neil and make it back in time for Franklin’s party in this exciting, new, picture-book adventure.

In the third volume of the Franklin and Luna series, well-loved fairy-tale characters are vividly and wittily recreated to great effect.

Illustrated in color throughout

About this title

About the Author:

Jen Campbell is the Sunday Times best-selling author of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores. Her latest nonfiction book, The Bookshop Book, was the official book of the Books Are My Bag campaign.

Katie Harnett is an illustrator with an MA in children’s book illustration from the Cambridge School of Art. She won the 2015 Ars in Fabula Award and is the author of Archie Snufflekins Oliver Valentine Cupcake Tiberius Cat.

Review:

“Sweet... Another addition to the crowded shelf of books celebrating books.”
- Kirkus Reviews

“This rhyming adventure features a fearless redheaded heroine who encounters three little pigs, a boy who has sold his cow for magic beans, a yawning princess with some peas―the characters of your favorite fairy tales. How easy it is, this funny story shows, to get lost in a book.”
- Star Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0500651752
• ISBN 13: 9780500651759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32