Once Upon a Fairytale

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Once Upon a Fairytale

Choose Your Own Story

Natalia and Lauren O’Hara

(Pan Macmillan)

Will you begin with ‘a golden morning… a fairy’s birthday… a cosy teatime… a rainy Tuesday… a broken armchair’? Thereafter, who is in your ‘land ruled by a wise, kind Queen‘? It seems that you can choose between ‘a well- dressed puss‘ or ‘a jolly woodcutter’s son‘, then ‘a gentle knight’ or ‘ a courteous fox‘. What’s more, there are further characters you can include beyond these? Thereafter, where might these characters live? For example, what about ‘ a shoe on a village street’?

However, the story kicks off with a ‘messenger from the Queen‘. It seems that there’s ‘horrid news’ for ‘a villain has cursed the land’ and turned…

Natalia and Lauren O’Hara, whom we love for picture books such as Frindleswylde, offer such a multitude of story possibilities with their wonderful Once Upon a Fairytale. Their options give us the opportunity to create and read such a variety of stories. For example, might we see the ‘friendly ginger-bread man‘ eat ‘gold bars and ruby sprinkles, with gnomes’? Or then, what about the ‘kindly farm girl’ who lives in ‘a tree in a playground‘ taking out a ‘ring‘ to ‘swim up the drainpipe‘? Within the rich storytelling possibilities, ripe with description and action, we’ve such inspiring pictures upon which to linger. Altogether, Bookwagon loves and recommends Once Upon a Fairytale to readers of all ages.