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The Goat-Faced Girl: A Classic Italian Folktale

The Goat-Faced Girl: A Classic Italian Folktale

Sharpe, Leah Marinsky
Marinsky, Jane

Hardcover

Fairy Tales & Folklore

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ISBN10: 1567923933
ISBN13: 9781567923933
Publisher: David R Godine Publ
Published: Oct 1 2009
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 10.10 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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.

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