An undone fairy tale By Lendler, Ian

Title: An undone fairy tale

Author: Lendler, Ian

Illustration: Whitney Martin

Publisher: Simon & Schuster books for young readers

Comments

CIP Info When its illustrator cannot keep up with its reader, a story about a selfish, pie-loving king, takes numerous silly detours.

I must admit, when I picked up this book, I didn’t expect much. It looked kinda dumb. With that said, we will chalk this up on the “you can’t judge a book by its cover” list. I laughed and laughed at this book. Rarely do you get a book that tells two stories at once. It is even rarer to have the two stories told well. The first, or main story, is the traditional princess fairy tale. The second story is about Ned the illustrator fighting to get the illustrations done before the reader gets there. At one point the princess races to save her kingdom on a snail, because that is all Ned had left. I can’t wait to buy this book.

Illustrations are in water color and gauche.