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32 pp.
| Dial |
September, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8037-2878-3$16.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Mark Buehner.
Queen Sophie is bored. She enrolls in a correspondence course with the Royal College of Beauty, then forces her subjects to let her practice on them--until they protest her cosmetic tyranny. The accompanying oil over acrylic illustrations deliver on the funny premise; farm folk and sheep alike are beehived and otherwise coiffed within an inch of their lives.