Frog Bride by Antonia Barber5/25/2023 Antonia Barber's The Ghosts was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and filmed as The Amazing Mr Blunden. Her books for Frances Lincoln are Antonia Barber's retelling of The Frog Bride and Sally Pomme Clayton's Persephone. She worked as a sculptor on the Minas Tirith set of Peter Jackson's film trilogy The Lord of the Rings in New Zealand and designed merchandise for the films. She studied Art and Design at Exeter College and Illustration at Kingston University. Ĭom Virginia Lee is the daughter of the artist and film conceptual designer Alan Lee. This book was published 2010 by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. But will he ever have a flesh-and-blood human wife to call his own!? Virginia Lee's haunting, other-worldly illustrations transform Antonia Barber's elegant retelling of a Russian folk tale into an enchanting fairytale classic. He marries the frog, only to discover that each night she changes into a beautiful princess. Imagine the feelings of the youngest son when he discovers a large frog holding his arrow in her mouth. A Russian tsar tells each of his three sons to shoot an arrow and marry the woman he finds where the arrow lands.
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