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Zusatztext This book is a real treasure as Hilary McKay presents us with ten traditional and well-loved tales which she has skillfully mixed up! re-worked and re-imagined. Informationen zum Autor Hilary McKay is an award-winning author! having won the Guardian Fiction Prize for her first novel! The Exiles ! and going on to win the Smarties and the Whitbread (now the Costa) Award for The Exiles in Love and Saffy's Angel . Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales was her first book with Macmillan Children's Books and is a critically acclaimed collection of clever retellings. Her 2018 title The Skylarks' War marks the centenary of the end of the First World War and was the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. It is a classic in the making. Sarah Gibb studied at Saint Martin's School of Art (now Central Saint Martins) before completing her MA in Illustration at Brighton College of Art. After landing regular spots in the Telegraph and Elle m agazine ! Sarah went on to illustrate Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole series! many classic children's fairy tales and even the Harrods Christmas window display. She lives in Wandsworth! London. Klappentext Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales is a classic fairy-tale collection to treasure. Featuring Hilary McKay's imaginative retellings of key favourites! this ten-story collection includes the much-loved tales of Rapunzel! Cinderella! The Princess and the Pea! Rumpelstiltskin! The Pied Piper of Hamelin! The Swan Brothers! Snow White and the Seven Dwarves! Red Riding Hood! The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Hansel and Gretel. This gorgeous gift hardback has a foiled cover! a ribbon marker and features black-and-white line and tone illustrations throughout from the talented Sarah Gibb. Beautiful fairy-tale retellings from the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay Zusammenfassung Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales is a classic fairy-tale collection to treasure. Featuring Hilary McKay's imaginative retellings of key favourites! this ten-story collection includes the much-loved tales of Rapunzel! Cinderella! The Princess and the Pea! Rumpelstiltskin! The Pied Piper of Hamelin! The Swan Brothers! Snow White and the Seven Dwarves! Red Riding Hood! The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Hansel and Gretel. This gorgeous gift hardback has a foiled cover! a ribbon marker and features black-and-white line and tone illustrations throughout from the talented Sarah Gibb. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - i: Introduction Chapter - 1: The Tower and the Bird or Rapunzel Chapter - 2: Straw into Gold or Rumpelstiltskin Chapter - 3: The Roses Round the Palace or Cinderella Chapter - 4: The Fountain in the Market Square or The Pied Piper of Hamelin Chapter - 5: Chickenpox and Crystal or Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Chapter - 6: The Prince and the Problem or The Princess and the Pea Chapter - 7: Over the Hills and Far Away or Red Riding Hood and the Piper's Son Chapter - 8: Things Were Different in Those Days or The Twelve Dancing Princesses Chapter - 9: What I Did in the Holidays and Why Hansel's Jacket Is So Tight (by Gretel, aged 10) or Hansel and Gretel Chapter - 10: Sweet William by Rushlight or The Swan Brothers Section - ii: About the Author Section - iii: About the Illustrator Section - iv: Bibliography/Further Reading ...
