The Twelve Dancing Princesses
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This month's cover features an illustration by Victor Ambrus (see Authorgraph) for Gulliver's Travels, retold by James Riordan. It is published in July by Oxford University Press (0 19 279897 9, £9.95) and we are grateful to OUP for their help in using this picture
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The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Illustrated by Anne Dalton
Retold by Anne Carter
Retold in an accessible way, this tale has the right mix of magic, intrigue and suspense to keep youngsters turning the pages. Daydreamer Michael's good fairy sends him off to realise his dreams at the Castle Belvedere, where he has to be nifty on his feet or else lose his head if he can't sort out where the prancing princesses go at night. He keeps his head! The flowery-bowery illustrations elegantly and sumptuously enrich the text with generous, fanciful detail.
