Listened on Audible AND read the BOOK
2017 Candlewick Press
74 pgs.
Mid Grades Fairy Tale
Finished 3/21/18
Goodreads rating: 4.01 - 1029 ratings
My rating: 4
First line/s: When Princess Cora was born, her mother and father thought she was as perfect as a snowflake."
My comments: I purchased this book through Audible for a ridiculously low price - can't remember how low, but like maybe 99-cents. Because I've loved everything I've read by Laura Amy Schitz previously, I couldn't pass it up. Oh, does Davina Porter read this beautifully! She has the easiest-to-understand British accent and is just a joy to spend time with. The story is adorable, but I really think that I need to see the illustrations - that's the only problem with an audio book that has illustrations. So I won't make an actual review of this until I have sat down with the book itself and take in the pictures. 5/5 I have done that now. They've really fun.
Goodreads synopsis: A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Medalist join forces to give an overscheduled princess a day off and a wicked crocodile a day "on."
Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick, sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents won't let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn't expect help to come in the form of a crocodile, a crocodile who does not behave properly.
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