How Prudence Proovit Proved the Truth About Fairy Tales - Hardcover

K-Gr. 2. It may be ill-advised to put so much slippery philosophical underpinning in a picture book, but there it is. Prudence is the home-schooled child of two professors. She and her parents make a straw-man dichotomy between science and fairy tales, and then the book goes about demolishing same. When Prudence gets invited to school, she is horrified to see that Miss Bliss tells fairy tales all the time. Then Prudence starts getting postcards full of punnery: "It helps to let down your hair. R." or "Why so grumpy? Are you sleepy? S.W and the D's." And Miss Bliss says all you have to do is believe. A costume ball at school culminates in the revelation that Miss Bliss is a fairy godmother and in Prudence' conversion to the fairy side of the force and the idea that believing makes it so. The text, a bit hyper, is matched by pictures that are jazzed, bright cartoons. GraceAnne DeCandido
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