Submitted by Ms. Catherine!
Princess stories have been around forever, and there is hardly a little girl out there who doesn’t appreciate a good one. But what about a story in which a young girl works hard, and is able to give the “bird brained” prince his just desserts? In The Goat-Faced Girl, an Italian folktale retold by Leah Marinsky Sharpe, and illustrated by Jane Marinsky, the young heroine, as lovely and intelligent as she might be, is as lazy as a bed bug. Her dear sorceress mother fears for her daughter’s future as a lazy lump. With a bit of magic, some cookbooks, and some hard work, our heroine learns that perhaps spending your life being waited on by servants with a boring lazy prince is not the best option. Maybe hard work and a brain will win out over beauty after all! See this book listed in our catalog
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