The Ogre Who Wasn't
by Michael Morpurgo (Author) Emily Gravett (Illustrator)
Clara is a small, strong-willed princess who likes running wild, jumping ditches and climbing trees . . . but most of all, she loves collecting creepy-crawlies and making them her friends.
That's not easy with a bossy butler and a pernickety nanny always on your case. When Clara discovers that an ogre she keeps in her shoe under her bed isn't an ogre at all, he offers her a way out of her predicament. There's only one thing she needs to do . . .
Written by one of Two Hoots's most acclaimed authors and illustrated by the award-winning Emily Gravett: the marvellous partnership who also created the bestselling picture book, A Song of Gladness.
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Publishers Weekly
Princess Clara finds a small ogre in the palace garden near a pond, and because she's terribly lonely--her mother has died, and her father is always gone--she takes him home and keeps him in her shoe. (Digitally finished colored pencil and watercolor artwork by Gravett reveals glimpses of the ogre, whose green body and big eyes suggest a more familiar creature.) While the little ogre "was very happy," Princess Clara dislikes her solitary life as well as the persnickety nanny who makes her dress up, the butler who forbids skipping, and the gardener who calls her "nuisance child." When the ogre asks Clara about her dearest wish, events unspool quickly and triumphantly. Imaginative vignettes are full of motion and charm, and in the hands of Mopurgo, fairy tale elements are shuffled and reassembled to produce a telling that feels both fresh and familiar. Primary characters are portrayed with pale skin. Ages 3-7. (Oct.)
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Kirkus
Toad-ally enchanting.
JUV002120 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Frogs & Toads
JUV012040 - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore | Adaptations
