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the stable boy admired the princess from afar until one day when a beast flew down and snatched her, The king dispatched his knights to rescue her, but the return of a hawk signaled their failure, Now Nedso clumsy that he was known as Butterfingerstook up the mantle and left on the old pony Dilly accompanied by his cantankerous dog Tuffy, As they traveled across the parched landscape, their party grew to include a pig, a mouse, an otter, a fox, and a lark, Now, they just needed to rescue the princess from a d,

The constant chatter of the animals to advance the story was sometimes annoying, I ended up hating the dog, but really wanted to know more about Ned and the princess, The book is nothing special, and is in fact rather cliche, But the art is gorgeous, Ian Beck has done a masterful job using silhouette technique to create detailed illustrations throughout the book, He seems to have used overlays in some

instances to get a slightly more detailed look while preserving the silhouettes,

Worth perusing for the illustrations, Shame the story isn't more interesting, Beautiful paper cut shadow pictures, New Fairytale. Fairytale about a clumsy stableboy and a band of animals who save a princess, This book was a let down from beginning to end, First of all the illustrations are useless, Using black, the illustrater does only shadow style drawings which gives the reader no help in trying to imagine character styles or specifics, The story is easily figured out early in the book even though the author for some reason remains at trying to keep the plot a mystery, This book should have been at least half as long and meant as a early reader version with just a couple of chapters, Just not worth the time it took to read it, Fairly cute book about a clumsy stable boy who helps to save a princess from a dragon, Definitely for children betweennd andth grade and was amusing, but not the greatest book I've read lately, Cute illustrations though. Fast read but good

I like childrens books that are well illustrated, even if I have the story elsewhere and the ones in this are wonderful in their distinctiveness.
The blackandwhite and gray illustrations in this book look like silhouettes on the page, giving it the oldfashioned feel of a shadow puppet play, The pictures themselves tell the story along with the text as, on eight consecutive pages, we see a princess at play and then snatched up by a terrible dark shadow.


This is a story like no other, featuring a hero as clumsy as he is inept, But, in spite of his obvious lack of knightly training, Ned sets out with brave heart to find the lost princess, Attended by a motley crew of beasts, Neds plight definitely hearkens back to old Grimm tales but with far more personality and warmth, PRINCESS BELLA HAS been snatched from her secret garden by a terrifying monster, leaving behind nothing but a glittering golden ball, Not even the bravest knights in the kingdom can save her from the huge, dark, firebreathing creature with enormous wings, a great swishing tail, and deadly claws.
But clumsy Ned, the stable boy, is determined to succeed where the gallant knights have failed, Can he defeat the dragon and get the girl Or will he let the chance to become a hero slip through his butterfingers Join our unlikely hero and his animal friends on their daring quest across the plain, through the woods, and into the mountains to find out.



From the Hardcover edition, .