The Tale of Jack Frost
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
There was once a group of trees who were fed up with living in a deep, dark and crowded valley - so they moved to the enchanted forest. But as everybody knows, trees cannot walk without magic. This is the story of how Jack, the small boy with the frozen touch, wanders in to the forest and ends up saving the magic from the greedy goblins outside. An exquisitely illustrated and beautifully told story.
'An enchanting story, perfect for frosty nights.' - Junior
David Melling is one of the UK's best-loved author-illustrators. The Hugless Douglas series has sold over 1.4 million copies in 26 languages.
Hello, Hugless Douglas! was a World Book Day picture book in 2014.
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When a wide-eyed boy with snow-white skin mysteriously appears in the middle of a silvery forest, assorted unicorns, woodhoppers, beezels, Bing Bong Bandylegs and skitlets take him under their shimmery wings. The animals discover he can turn whatever he touches into ice, so they name him Jack Frost and share their magical secrets, such as how to mix "rare potions and unusual soups" and "worm-juice surprise." These skills come in handy when Jack is kidnapped by a gaggle of goblins who want to steal the forest's magic. In cartoonlike art, Melling (The Kiss That Missed) imagines gangly woodland creatures with twisty noses and hairy kneecaps and bald, pajama-clad goblins with gold earrings (the goblins "smelled of boiled cabbage and liked to make rude noises just for fun"). Readers who like their fairy tales served with physical comedy will revel in the detailed illustrations and cheer on Jack, who freezes the goblins in "magic ice puddles with snail glue." Well-suited to reading aloud, the story closes on a kid-friendly note: the frosty webs of ice that appear on windows, says the narrator, are "little spells of magic" from Jack "to protect you from the smell of boiled cabbage." Ages 4-7.
