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A new adventure where Franklin and Luna follow their friend the tortoise into a dusty fairy-tale kingdom. Who will they meet there?Franklin and Luna are back again and this time it's Franklin's birthday! Luna and all the villagers are planning a surprise party. While the party is being set up, Luna takes Franklin book shopping, and Luna's tortoise, Neil, finds a padlocked book of fairy tales and can't help picking the lock. But when he peers inside, the book swallows him whole! Franklin and Luna dive into the book to rescue Neil and tumble into a cobwebbed forest where they meet dusty fairy-tale characters who have been trapped inside the pages for hundreds of years.In this new Franklin and Luna adventure, the adorable duo meet three pig architects, a wolf with a New Age attitude, and a very bored princess.
About the Author
Jen Campbell grew up in the north east of England and now lives in London. She an award-winning poet and bestselling author of ten books across nonfiction, fiction and poetry. Her latest book, The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers, is forthcoming autumn 2021.Her short story collection The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night is published by Two Roads, and her children's picture books, Franklin's Flying Bookshop, Franklin and Luna Go to the Moon and Franklin and Luna and the Book of Fairy Tales are published by Thames & Hudson.She is also the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series and The Bookshop Book. Her poetry pamphlet The Hungry Ghost Festival is published by The Rialto, and her poetry collection The Girl Aquarium is published by Bloodaxe.Jen has worked in the book trade for fifteen years and runs a Youtube channel over at youtube.com/jenvcampbell. She also reviews books in print, online, and on the radio, gives talks about the history of fairy tales and the representation of disfigurement and disability, and runs writing workshops. She is represented by Charlie Campbell at CCA.
