This evening I thought I would share a new children’s book Princess Cora and the Crocodile Written By: Laura Amy Schlitz Charlie and I found while browsing in our local bookstore the other day. So, with Christmas just a few days away I want to pick up a copy of Princess Cora and the Crocodile Written By: Laura Amy Schlitz for Charlie and my niece and nephew. So they have a new book to read in the new year.
A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Medalist join forces to give an over scheduled princess a day off — and a deliciously wicked crocodile a day on.
Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She’s sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She’s sick, sick, sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents won’t let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn’t expect that help to come in the form of a crocodile—a crocodile who does not behave properly. With perfectly paced dry comedy, children’s book luminaries Laura Amy Schlitz and Brian Floca send Princess Cora on a delightful outdoor adventure — climbing trees! getting dirty! having fun! — while her alter ego wreaks utter havoc inside the castle, obliging one pair of royal helicopter parents to reconsider their ways.
I have a question for you have you or your children read this book and if so what did they like about it and was there anything they didn’t care for in the book?
Laura Amy Schlitz is the author of the 2008 Newbery Medal-winning GOOD MASTERS! SWEET LADIES! VOICES FROM A MEDIEVAL VILLAGE, illustrated by Robert Byrd, and the 2013 Newbery Honor book SPLENDORS AND GLOOMS. She is also the author of: A Drowned Maiden’s Hair: A Melodrama Kindle Edition, THE NIGHT FAIRY; THE HERO SCHLIEMANN: THE DREAMER WHO DUG FOR TROY; and THE BEARSKINNER: A STORY OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM, a retelling illustrated by Max Grafe.
Her newest novel, THE HIRED GIRL, traces the story of a farm girl who escapes her hard scrabble life in 1911 rural Pennsylvania, and journeys from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty.
Schlitz lives in Baltimore, where she is a lower school librarian at the Park School.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
