Lou Kuenzler’s Second Term at Tall Towers is a funny, friendly princess-school story for 6 year olds about a very clumsy princess who’s sure she’s seen a dragon.<\/p>\n
Grace isn’t your usual princess. She’d much rather climb trees and gallop about on Billy, her scruffy black-and-white unicorn, than practise her curtsy. Now it’s spring term at Tall Towers Princess Academy, and she’s just spotted a flash of red scales over the cliffs.<\/p>\n
The trouble is, everybody knows the Coronet Crimson dragons are extinct. The school’s gamekeeper chased the last of them off the island fifteen years ago.<\/p>\n
So nobody believes Grace. Worse, her wild gallop back to warn everyone ends with Billy tearing up the lawn and a hundred hand-made invitations in the mud. Scarlet and Izumi, her two best friends, are upset. Her mean cousin Precious is thrilled. Before long Grace isn’t speaking to any of them.<\/p>\n
It’s a lovely little story about friendship. Scarlet and Izumi try to help by secretly writing out Grace’s punishment lines for her, and Grace is furious. Haven’t we all had a moment when someone being kind made us feel even more hopeless?<\/p>\n
There’s plenty to giggle at along the way. Grace picks a flower called dragon’s heart for the spring ballet, and it smells like, well, poo (Precious has an even ruder name for it). There’s a huge, soppy dragon hound called Flump who only wants his tummy tickled. And there’s Grace in ballet class, stamping her feet with her bun in a total tangle.<\/p>\n
She makes a new friend too. Hetty is the gamekeeper’s little niece, and she has always dreamed of riding a unicorn, even though only princesses are allowed. Grace thinks that rule is ridiculous!<\/p>\n
Two of the characters have lost their mums, which is mentioned in passing as part of their background.<\/p>\n
It’s a proper chapter book, so it makes a lovely bedtime read-aloud as well as a first taste of reading alone.<\/p>\n
If this is your reader’s first meeting with Grace, they can meet her properly in A Royal Disaster, the book where she arrives at the harbour in a shaggy yak-fur cloak and the other princesses think she’s a monster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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