By Kate Duke

Puffin, 1994
Ages 4 – 8
Paperback, ISBN-10: 0140505342

For nearly two decades, this book has been used in elementary-school creative-writing programs across the country to teach children how they too can “tell a good one.”   The basic ingredients of stories –  character, problem, solution – are introduced and discussed by Aunt Isabel and her niece Penelope as they make up a fairy-tale-like adventure together.   This is not a tedious primer, though – as the title promises, the story of Prince Augustus’s escape from the vile Odious Mole and Bad-Egg Bat is a rip-roaring, satisfying success.

Subjects:

• Fairy Tales/Fantasy/Folklore