A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Medalist join forces to give an overscheduled 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.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 5-9 years.

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Walker Books Ltd .

Laura Amy Schlitz, author of Fire Spell and the Newbery Medal-winner Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village, has spent most of her life working as a librarian and professional storyteller. She has also written plays for young people that have been performed in professional theatres all over the US. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of Locomotive , winner of the 2013 Caldecott Medal; Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 , a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; Lightship , also a Sibert Honor Book; and Racecar Alphabet , an ALA Notable Children's Book. He has illustrated Avi's Poppy Stories, Kate Messner's Marty McGuire novels, and Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan's Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring , a Sibert Honor Book and winner of the Orbis Pictus Award. You can visit him online at BrianFloca. com.