Bold as can be, Jill astride a dragon triumphantly greets the reader and you just know she is a girl who gets on with things, oh yes, she does! As Jill finishes reading her book that supposedly ends ‘happily ever after’ she notices that a dragon is not happy at all because the king is displeased with his fiery manner. Jill sets about teaching him how to become accomplished at more acceptable everyday ways, with not a lot of success until she thinks laterally. The result is that the king is finally happy with dragon’s dragony ways.

Lesley Barnes has created a brilliant book with bold and vibrant pictures and a character undaunted by challenges who children will love. Ages 3 and up.

Alexa Dretzke