The Goat-Faced Girl: A Classic Italian Folktale (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781567923933)

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 alluring life offered her by the charming Prince Rupert, a world of cooks and servants, palaces and jewels, luxury and indolence. Luckily, the witch 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.

Author: Leah Marinsky Sharpe
ISBN-10: 1567923933
ISBN-13: 9781567923933
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 10.10w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 11/01/2009
Publishers Weekly 11/23/2009 pg. 55
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2010
School Library Journal 01/01/2010 pg. 90
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2010 pg. 129 - Recommended, Satisfactory