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A subversive, funny - and deliciously prickly! - tale for the young reader looking for a book with bite. Eshe and her twelve sisters are Fairy Godmothers, honoured for the incredible gifts they can bestow. But Eshe's special abilities are a little different - she can glimpse into the future! And, one day, Eshe foresees something terrifying: a world blanketed in creeping vines and a girl covered in thorns. Eshe needs to stop her vision becoming true, but it will require old and powerful magic. And she won't be able to do it alone... Following on from Zombierella and Frankenstiltskin, this is the third and final book in a deliciously dark trilogy of twisted classics, written in verse by award-winning poet Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Freya Hartas.
About the author
Joseph Coelho was the Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024, and is an award-winning poet, playwright and writer. In 2024 he won the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing for
The Boy Lost in the Maze and was awarded an OBE for his services to the arts, to children's reading and to literature. His first poetry collection,
Werewolf Club Rules!, , won the CLPE Children's Poetry Award in 2015, and he has been writing and performing ever since. His picture books include
If All the World Were... illustrated by Allison Colpoys and the Luna Loves...
series illustrated by Fiona Lumbers. His poetry books for children include
Overheard in a Tower Block illustrated by Kate Milner,
A Year of Nature Poems illustrated by Kelly Louise Judd, and his novel in verse,
The Girl Who Became a Tree. Originally from London, he now lives in Edinburgh. Follow him on X as @JosephACoelho and on Instagram as @josephcoelhoauthor.
