Review: Fly Pie

Fly Pie

Written by Joy Cowley

Illustrated by Philip Webb

Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited

ISBN: 978-1-86943-924-8

Summary:

Once there was a frog who had been a prince.  He knew he could become a prince again if he was kissed by a princess.  So off he went, slippity slop, hippity hop, flippity flop to the castle down the road...

But happiness can sometimes be found on the lily pad next door.  An entertaining twist on an old fairytale.

Another great story from beloved Kiwi children's author, Joy Cowley.  A frog who knows he was once a prince, likes living in his swamp and even has his eye on a cute girl from living on the next lily pad over, but thinks he has to fufil his destiny by kissing a princess and turning back into a prince.  But upon discovering the princess is selfish and mean, he realises he had it much better in the swamp and so flippity flops back to the cute girl frog and her yummy fly pie.

Cute and funny, full of great sounding words, this will become a family favourite.

4/5

Review written by QTCass