Princess Gloriana writes a story called The Magic Fountain. It's terrible, but when you're royal the fact that you can't write for toffee doesn't matter. It takes Prince Waldo, some Visigoths and a talkative bear to give her a new story. Shortlisted for the 1995 Smarties Book Prize.

 

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Roger McGough is a renowned performance poet, with many collections of well-loved children's poetry to his name. Jostein Gaarder wrote one of the great bestsellers of the nineties in SOPHIE'S WORLD, which has sold over 16 million copies in nearly 50 languages. He is Norwegian and lives in Oslo with his wife and two teenage sons. Philip Hopman is Dutch and has illustrated many books for children.