Creeping Beauty: Fairy Tales Gone Bad Av Joseph Coelho

<p><b>Celebrate Halloween and the spooky season with this</b><b> subversive, funny – and deliciously prickly! – tale for the young reader looking for a book with bite. Written in verse by former Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Freya Hartas.</b><br><br>Eshe and her twelve sisters are Fairy Godmothers, honoured for the incredible gifts they can bestow. But Eshe’s special abilities are a little different – she can glimpse into the future! And, one day, Eshe foresees something terrifyin a world blanketed in creeping vines and a girl covered in thorns. Eshe needs to stop her vision becoming true, but it will require old and powerful magic. And she won’t be able to do it alone…<br><br>Following on from <i>Zombierella</i> and <i>Frankenstiltskin</i>, this is the third and final book in a deliciously dark trilogy of twisted classics, written in verse by the winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Freya Hartas.<br><br><b>“This twist on Sleeping Beauty is absorbing, original and deliciously magical.” <i>BookTrust</i></b></p>