SAMPLE Princess Minna

Princess Minna: The Enchanted Forest
Kirsty Applebaum Illustrated by Sahar Haghgoo
Word count: 2,500
Genre: 4-colour early reader fiction, fantasy/fairy tale Age range: 4 - 5+
Debut: yes
Illustrations: yes
Series/standalone: series, this is the first book
Why did you acquire it?
I acquired this series because it’s funny, appealing fiction for children moving on from picture books but not yet ready to give up colour illustrations.
Synopsis
Princess Minna is very good at lots of things. She is good at taming unicorns, kissing frogs and fighting dragons. She lives in Castle Tall-Towers with the King, the Queen and a wizard called Raymond. Most of the time, everything is well in the kingdom. But sometimes, it all goes wrong and big seagulls come and squawk about the castle and make everywhere smell like old seaweed.And that is when Princess Minna must go on an adventure to put things right.
In THE ENCHANTED FOREST, the prince in the neigh- bouring kingdom has pricked his finger on a spinning wheel, just like an old witch predicted he would when he was born, and now he’s trapped, asleep, in his castle, surrounded by thorny bushes and guards. Princess Minna