Description
Should bakers’ daughter want to marry princes? (Lucinda’s father didn’t think so.)
Should kings and queens let princesses play with dragons?
Should Orpheus have made so much of a fuss about his wife?
Should Ben rely on Magic Eye creatures to help him find his mother in Brazil?
Should Father Christmas retire and let us give presents to him for a change?
So many questions—but these are the burning questions of the day, if you live in storyland. With children’s writers inventing new formats every day, Janina David has gone back to traditional forms—Grimms’ fairy tales and ancient legend—and matched classic themes and modern sensibilities to produce stories that feel as if they’ve always been around, just waiting for us to discover them. The Princess and the Baker’s Daughter: Five Stories for Five Children is a collection of captivating tales intended for readers of different ages and different interests, but all linked by a common love of make-believe. Some have appeared in translation in overseas annuals and collections. One has been staged, to great success.
Janina David
Janina David (born 1930 in Poland) is a Holocaust survivor and a British writer and translator. She escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, hiding in a Polish Catholic household and a convent until she was able to reach Paris in 1946 and then emigrated to Australia, alone, in 1948.
A year after moving to London in 1958, she started work on a three-volume autobiography, the first volume of which―A Square of Sky―went on to be a best-seller in Germany, a set text in German schools, a play and a film. In 1982 she was awarded Germany’s Goldener Gong together with the film’s director, Franz Peter Wirth, and its lead actor, Dana Vávrová. Since 1978, she has worked as an author and translator of children’s and young people’s books, and of radio plays, for the BBC and others. Her other titles include A Touch of Earth and Light over the Water.
Metadata
Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
Extent: 86 pages
Size: 203mm x 127mm (8.0” x 5.0”)
ISBN: 9781915023087
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