Lauren Child of Charlie and Lola fame has written a hilarious book about their friend Herb who falls into a book of fairy tales and has to fess up to crimes that he committed against the book...crimes like cutting out pages and putting them back upside down, drawing mustaches on some of the characters (like the queen in Cinderella) and sqishing peas between the pages. Herb, looking for help from the characters finds only a crabby Goldilocks (she is the star, afterall and he is stealing her limelight), a Cinderella who can't go to the ball for lack of a prince (Herb cut out him a while back to use as a picture on a card for his mother) and a confused stepmother who is now in the book upside down.
The familiar story book characters paired with the frantic Herb make this book a pleasure to read to yourself or to shar with someone you love! The illustrations are very fun and children familiar with the Charlie and Lola characters may have to read it with a British Accent...very lovely!
