Things Were Different in Those Days
Hilary McKay
Illustrated by Sarah Gibb
Ages 8 to 11
12 October 2017
Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Synopsis
Here are the twelve dancing princesses, who drove the Old King to distraction by wearing through their slippers every night. (Which sounds like something he could have made less fuss about, until you do the maths: well over four thousand pairs of slippers a year. Satin slippers too!)
Things Were Different in Those Days is an imaginative retelling of the classic...
Details
12 October 2017
16 pages
9781447292371
Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Reviews
Hilary McKay is back! . . . She's inventive, funny and will always make you laugh . . . the oldest stories given fresh lifeThe Bookbag