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Paratore, Coleen Murtagh

How Prudence Proovit Proved the Truth about Fairy Tales

32 pp. | Simon | June, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-689-86274-1 $$15.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Tamara Petrosino. Prudence Proovit's professor parents, who homeschool her, disapprove of fairy tales. When they try an "experiment" and send Prudence to school, she heckles her fairy-tale reading teacher and alienates her only friend. The book's up-with-imagination message is heavy-handed, but this punning tale is full of surprises. Though cartoony, the illustrations have panache.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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