Book description
Josie Jenkins, aged eight and three quarters, can do a few tricks, but
she astonishes herself and everyone else when she finds she can lift a
table, a car and even a bus with no effort at all. Josie becomes famous,
and Mr Two Suit sweeps in with a contract and swoops the whole family
off to New York. How Josie copes with fame and fortune, and with the
loss of it when she wakes up one day to find she can't do her trick any
more, makes a story of enormous charm, with a tiny, modest and sensible
heroine you have to cheer for. Entrancing drawings on every page make
this a really special book. Sally Gardner was a very successful
designer of sets and costumes for the theatre for many years, but she
always wanted to write and illustrate books for children. Her first was
The Little Nut Tree, then Playtime Rhymes, a big collection of rhymes
for younger children, and now the bestselling A Book of Princesses.
