For Kids 5-8! Dashka Slater
reads from Dangerously Ever After (Dial, $16.99). She'll also bring supplies for making paper noses and roses with pipe cleaner thorns. Join in the fun . . .
$3 per participant. May be applied to book purchase. Call Mrs. Dalloway's (704-8222) to reserve your spot at the craft table.
Not all princesses are made of sugar and spice--some are made of funnier, fiercer stuff.
Princess Amanita laughs in the face of danger. Brakeless bicycles, pet scorpions, spiky plants--that's her thing. So when quiet Prince Florian gives her roses, Amanita is unimpressed . . . until she sees their glorious thorns! Now she must have rose seeds of her own. But when huge, honking noses grow instead, what is a princess with a taste for danger to do?
For readers seeking a princess with pluck comes an independent heroine who tackles obstacles with a bouquet of sniffling noses. At once lovely and delightfully absurd, here's a story to show how elastic ideas of beauty and princesses can be.
Dashka Slater is also the author of The Sea Serpent and Me. She lives in Oakland.
