Franklin and Luna and the Book of Fairy Tales

by Jen Campbell, Katie Harnett

Overview

A new adventure where Franklin and Luna follow their friend the tortoise into a dusty fairy-tale kingdom. Who will they meet there?

Franklin and Luna are back again and this time it’s Franklin’s birthday! Luna and all the villagers are planning a surprise party. While the party is being set up, Luna takes Franklin book shopping, and Luna’s tortoise, Neil, finds a padlocked book of fairy tales and can’t help picking the lock. But when he peers inside, the book swallows him whole! Franklin and Luna dive into the book to rescue Neil and tumble into a cobwebbed forest where they meet dusty fairy-tale characters who have been trapped inside the pages for hundreds of years.

In this new Franklin and Luna adventure, the adorable duo meet three pig architects, a wolf with a New Age attitude, and a very bored princess. Desperate to be brought to life, these fairy-tale characters join Franklin and Luna on their hunt for Neil, realizing that the only way to escape the book is to trek all the way through it. Find out if Franklin and Luna find Neil and make it back in time for Franklin’s party in this exciting, new, picture-book adventure.

In the third volume of the Franklin and Luna series, well-loved fairy-tale characters are vividly and wittily recreated to great effect.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780500651759
Publisher:	Thames & Hudson
Publication date:	09/17/2019
Series:	Franklin and Luna
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	11.30(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Jen Campbell is a Sunday Times bestselling author and award-winning poet. She is the author of ten published books of nonfiction, poetry, short stories, and children’s books. Jen specializes in the history of fairy tales and the representation of disfigurement, giving guest lectures at universities, museums, and book festivals on this topic. Her video installation on the history of fairy tales is currently part of an exhibition at Suffolk University, Boston, MA. Jen’s YouTube channel, which has over 57,000 subscribers, includes popular vlogs on the history of fairy tales.

Katie Harnett is an illustrator with an MA in children’s book illustration from the Cambridge School of Art. She won the 2015 Ars in Fabula Award and is the author of Archie Snufflekins Oliver Valentine Cupcake Tiberius Cat.

Editorial Reviews

"This rhyming adventure features a fearless redheaded heroine who encounters three little pigs, a boy who has sold his cow for magic beans, a yawning princess with some peas—the characters of your favorite fairy tales. How easy it is, this funny story shows, to get lost in a book."

Star Tribune

2019-07-14
Franklin, a large green dragon, and his friend Luna, a human girl, are about to celebrate the book-loving creature's 606th birthday.

There's a special party being planned, but Luna doesn't want Franklin to know about it. She takes him to a mysterious bookshop, where their adventure starts when Luna's pet tortoise is trapped in a locked book. In one of the most exciting of the full-bleed, double-page spreads, a swirl of many colors and mysterious symbols, Franklin and Luna follow into the magical world of fairy tales. There, they encounter the usual characters, with some updates. They meet three little pigs building a hotel, "a yawning princess with a bag of frozen peas," and a host of other characters, including an Asian-appearing knight, a turbaned, bearded maker of glass slippers, a brown-skinned witch, and others. These characters are introduced but do not advance the action. Franklin and Luna (who presents white) finally come up against the big, bad wolf, now a vegetarian yogi, who points out the lost tortoise—who's winning a race. The trio and all their new fairy-tale friends return to the village for Franklin's surprise birthday picnic. It's sweet, but other than diversity in the cast of secondary characters, this third outing for the pair, while echoing a positive message about "friends and books," doesn't really present anything new in the world of story.

Another addition to the crowded shelf of books celebrating books. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews