Goat-Faced Girl: A Classic Italian Folktale

Title: Goat-Faced Girl: A Classic Italian Folktale
Author: Leah Marinsky Sharpe
H: 1707836
ISBN: 9781567923933
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Published: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 32
Section: Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore | General
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Like many good fables, this story opens with a child left in the woods. A large lizard picks up the infant and takes her home, where she soon grows into a pretty, pampered, and generally useless young woman named Isabella. Despite her adoptive mother's efforts (for the lizard is really a witch in disguise) to shape her up, the girl prefers the alluring life offered her by the charming Prince Rupert, a world of cooks and servants, palaces and jewels, luxury and indolence. Luckily, the witch is a canny, concerned parent. She does not suffer fools lightly and is not about to let her daughter's too-easy transition to palace life go unchallenged. And so she arranges a surprise transformation for her daughter one that puts the prince's marital plans on hold and gives the witch just enough time to hammer home a few lessons about the downside of idleness.