The Goat-Faced Girl : A Classic Italian Folktale
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1567923933
ISBN-13
9781567923933
Publisher
David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Imprint
David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 12th, 2009
Print length
32 Pages
Dimensions
25.60 x 20.50 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Traditional stories (Children's / Teenage)
Ksh 2,350.00
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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 allu
Like many good fables, this story opens with a foundling left rather inconveniently, if not surprisingly in the woods. A large lizard, ever conscious of tripping hazards, 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 lizard woman 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, the inanity of vanity, and the satisfactions of self-reliance.
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