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21 Raring2go! A tale as old This round up looks at bo f some o our oldest fairy t of stories, from familiar m history reimagined into m Cinderella, Rapunzel and M hild V h as time oks inspired by ales and collections oments in agical fantasy to The Arabian Nights. f Rumay 4CFK[C * Step into >ÞÌ} enchanti together and then ‘Rumaysa, Rumaysa, let down your hijab!’ sa: A Fairytale CƂ\C CPF 4JCKFC 'N 6QWP[ a ‘Once Upon a Time’ where Ã «ÃÃLi° ,>`Þ> >wâ>½Ã ng and funny debut weaves three stories, updates them adds a twist and a little dance. oonc – oyage Lost and Found Aisha Bushby and Rachael With its roots in The Arabian Nights, this fast-paced magic adventure has a wonderful c characters, from sea witches d. T colossal stormbir welve-ye with her two sea-witch moth the Sahar Peninsula, an ench lies just beyond the horizon. her beloved companion, a ca o t e Dean al ast of , to a ar-old Amira lives ers on the oceans of anted realm which She is never without t jinni named Namur, For as lo been loc straw into unable to talkative small tow >Li Ì i turns up, as Rumay and her f forests an into som ng as she can remember Rumaysa ha ked away in her tower, forced to spin gold for the evil, book-destroying W leave. Until one day, with the help o owl, Rumaysa drops her hijab out of er-window and realises how she mig ÃV>«i° Ƃ ÃÌÀ>}i LÞ > yÞ} V>À« looking for someone to rescue – too sa has already rescued herself. Ruma riends adventure through enchanted d into dragon’s lairs. They stumble eone else’s story – Cinderayla, and th s itch, f a her ht be iÌ late ysa en who provides her with the m people’s emotions. Following dock at the island of Failak. H agitated when she befriends LÞ ÜÌ> }`wÃ] >` and suspects they are keepin amazing adventure unravels ÃÌÀiÃ ÃÌÀiÃ Ì` ÜÌ ÃÌ trilogy, it is accompanied by white illustrations which brin setting to life. Darwin’s Dragons agical ability to read a raging storm, they er mothers seem Leo, an inquisitive Þ ƂÀ> viiÃ >}À ] g secrets from her. An through the characters’ ÀiÃ° /i wÀÃÌ > striking black-and- g the characters and accidenta rude Slee Fun, ene the actio Knight Dreadf The Brot Knight Si at King B hungry d horrible w ti lly get involved with the snoring, slig ping Sara. rgetic black and white illustrations br n to life as the stories unfolds. Sir Louis and the ul Damsel hers McLeod r Louis is the bravest knight urt’s court. He has defeated ragons, evil goblins and izards (but please nobody K i ht Si L i htly ing Lindsay Galvin We all know how Charles Da set sail on HMS Beagle and formed his theory of evolutio LÞ LÃiÀÛ} Ìi wViÃ >` reptiles of the Galapagos Islands, don’t we? Well maybe we haven’t been told the full story. In Darwin’s Dra Üi>ÛiÃ ÜiÀiÃi>ÀVi`ÃÌ magical fantasy and creates emerging science shipwreck rwin n quite gons, Lindsay Galvin ÀV> wVÌ ÜÌ a wonderful tale of ed sailors volcanic men on is absolu Along wi and myst Louis and Damsel o land. }Ì - enchantm potatoes nemesis: A fun, to damsels wasps, n g r ou s tely NOT afraid of them). th his trusty mechanical steed Clunka ical sword (known as ‘Dave’), Knight his friends are sent to do battle with f Distresse, who has been terrorizing À ÕÃ w`ÃÃiv `i>} ÜÌÃÌÀ ents and powerful magic (as well as …) and his soon to be arch-enemy- the Stripy Knight. tally upside-down tale of knights and with extremely silly illustrations too lot, Sir the the } , islands and ..DRAGONS! In 1 Covington is on the voyage gets washed overboard in a alive but battered, on an une grumbling volcano starts to e his own survival at stake. , 835 Cabin Boy Syms of a lifetime, when he storm. He washes up, xplored island. As the e’ rupt, ther s more than Kenilw Talisma Kenilw , Reviews orth Books, n Square, orth CV8 1JB . by Tamsin Rosewell for Kenilworth Books