Mixed Up Fairy Tales: Split-Page Book

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This hilarious flap book allows you to mix and match fairy tales and create your own sensible or silly stories! Great fun! What would happen if Goldilocks had two horrid stepsisters and fell asleep for a hundred years Would she be woken by a hungry wolf or Little Red Riding Hood's Granny This fantastic split page book allows the reader to mix and match different combinations of fairy tales with hilarious results.

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For Email Jesus @ Bethlehem: 'Lively without being irreverent.' - The Bookseller, 'A thoughtful and heartfelt survey.' - TES, 'Just what the modern child should have' - Marianne Adey, Co-Ordinator Children's Book Award -- . 'Youngsters who know their fairy tales should have great fun mixing and matching them.' -- The Children's Bookseller 20050819 'For very small children, no amount of visionary artwork can compete with the fun of lifting flaps. My son, aged three and a half, loved Hilary Robinson and Nick Sharratt's Mixed Up Fairy Tales'. -- stephanie merrett - observer 20050901 Classic fairy stories have been re-told often but none so entertaining and unusual as Mixed Up Fairy Tales. Author Hilary Robinson and illustrator Nick Sharratt have created a classic fairy story book, but with an ingenious and captivating twist. Anyone, young or old, with an ounce of imagination and partial to fairy tales will love this book.www.writeaway.org.uk -- www.writeaway.org.uk 20051001 '...good fun.' -- Books for Keeps 20051001

Author Bio

Hilary currently works as a Freelance Producer for the BBC having worked as a Researcher at Yorkshire television for six years and prior to that at TV-am in London. Hilary is the author of many children's books and also writes features on educational matters for a range of newspapers and magazines. Hilary is married with two young daughters. Nick graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1984 and has been working as an illustrator ever since. His work encompasses books for babies through to books for early teens and he has produced around 150 books to date. He is perhaps best-known for his illustrations for the multi-million selling author Jacqueline Wilson, but as well as this, he writes his own picture books and collaborates with various reputed picture book writers, on books such as PANTS and EAT YOUR PEAS.Recent awards include the Children's Book Award, Sheffield Children's Book Award, The Stockport Schools Award, the Experian Big Three Award. He has also been nominated for the 2003 Kate Greenaway Prize.