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Things Were Different in Those Days: A The Twelve Dancing Princesses Retelling by Hilary McKay
Things Were Different in Those Days: A The Twelve Dancing Princesses Retelling by Hilary McKay
Things Were Different in Those Days: A The Twelve Dancing Princesses Retelling by Hilary McKay
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Things Were Different in Those Days: A The Twelve Dancing Princesses Retelling by Hilary McKay

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Here are the twelve dancing princesses, who drove the Old King to distraction by wearing through their slippers every night. (Which sounds like something he could have made less fuss about, until you do the maths: well over four thousand pairs of slippers a year. Satin slippers too!)

Things Were Different in Those Days is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!

From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPan Macmillan
Release dateOct 12, 2017
ISBN9781447292371
Things Were Different in Those Days: A The Twelve Dancing Princesses Retelling by Hilary McKay
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Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay is the award-winning author of The Time of Green Magic (which received five starred reviews), The Skylarks’ War (which was a Boston Globe Best Book and received three starred reviews), Binny Bewitched (which was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and received two starred reviews), Binny in Secret (which received three starred reviews), Binny for Short (which received four starred reviews), and six novels about the Casson family: Saffy’s Angel, Indigo’s Star, Permanent Rose, Caddy Ever After, Forever Rose, and Caddy’s World. She is also the author of The Swallows’ Flight, Rosa by Starlight, and Wishing for Tomorrow, the sequel to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess. Hilary lives with her family in Derbyshire, England. Visit her at HilaryMcKay.co.uk.

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    Things Were Different in Those Days - Hilary McKay

    To Ron and Mary Damms

    My father, who told me my first fairy tales, and my mother, who once (this is true), when she was twelve years old, spent an afternoon in a magic place that could only have been fairyland.

    Because when she went back to visit again, it had vanished, except for the memory that she treasures to this day.

    Contents

    Introduction

    Things Were Different in Those Days

    About the Author

    About the Illustrator

    Bibliography/Further Reading

    Introduction

    Of course these are not my fairy tales; they are everyone’s fairy tales, and have been for many years. Hundreds in the case of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and thousands in the case of Rumpelstiltskin. They are our living heritage, true fairy gold, except these stories do not disappear at sunset. Their day still shines. The best of them are well and flourishing, in schools and libraries, homes and playgrounds, just as much as they are with historians and universities.

    They live because they are so strong. They have withstood the years. Countries and rulers have come and gone, revolutions and wars have redrawn the old lines across Europe and beyond, forests have been felled, the wolves have all but vanished . . . and yet still their magic holds. Whoever has walked through a shadowy landscape, listening for the footsteps behind, has travelled with Red Riding Hood through the forest. Those far from home know the exile of the Swan Brothers. And I do not suppose there are many people reading this who have not speculated on the hazards of glass slippers, gingerbread houses, shiny red apples, and the problems of being caught out after midnight when

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