Father Knows Books: Princess Hyacinth

In Florence Parry Heide and Loren Long's new book Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated), dragons and other medieval threats aren't the problem faced by a young princess. Instead, she and her concerned parents wrestle with her charming, magical bouyancy. The fable that unfolds lifts off joyfully as Princess Hyancith literally rises above her family's fears.

 

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Ward's Father Knows Books and Drawn to Read appear monthly in the Barnes & Noble Review. Click here to see the complete Drawn to Read archive.

 

Comments
by GreyhoundMom on ‎10-16-2010 06:28 AM

I love this column. Why doesn't it appear more often? Good children's books need to be promoted.

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Ward Sutton’s cartoons and illustrations have appeared in the Village Voice, TV Guide, Rolling Stone, Time, Esquire, The New Yorker, and on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times.

Ward's Drawn to Read appears monthly in the Barnes & Noble Review. Click here to see the complete Drawn to Read archive.

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