The Princess and the Frog
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The illustration on our cover is by Michael Hague and is taken from Peter Pan by J M Barrie (Methuen, 0 416 09392 2 £9.95). We are grateful to Methuen for help in using this illustration.
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A clever and witty extension of the tale in which a princess finds a frog and hopes he will turn into a handsome prince. Frog disrupts the stable, but stuffy, lifestyle of the palace. There are some lovely vignettes of royal life and a spicy, offbeat tone to the humour (the King things Frog is a reporter 'in pursuit of royal gossip'). In the end, Frog returns home to his wife. Glorious pictures, like send-ups of staid Victorian family photos in parts. Sevens and eights enjoyed this as a funny yarn; nine to elevens wrote their own versions of the Frog-Princess tale.
