The Goat-Faced Girl: A Classic Italian Folktale

by Leah Marinsky Sharpe

Book Overview

Like many good fables, this story opens with a child left in the woods. A large lizard picks up the infant and takes her home, where she soon grows into a pretty, pampered, and generally useless young woman named Isabella. Despite her adoptive mother's efforts (for the lizard is really a witch in disguise) to shape her up, the girl prefers the alluring life offered her by the charming Prince Rupert, a world of cooks and servants, palaces and jewels,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567923933
• ISBN13: 9781567923933
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.1" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 1 to 4 years