Author(s): Cecily Matthews & Freya Blackwood (ill.)

Picture Books

A sumptuously illustrated storybook for preschoolers and primary readers, featuring seven charming stories about four-year-old Emily as she waits impatiently to grow long, flowing hair just like Rapunzel. Four-year-old Emily wants long, flowing Rapunzel hair. She wants to have pigtails in blue ribbons, just like Lucy Brown. Dad tells her that she will have to wait until the new baby is big enough to walk before she can have Rapunzel hair. While Emily waits for her hair to grow (and experiments with wearing red tights on her head to provide the illusion of Rapunzel hair), we join her on her everyday adventures from a trip to feed the ducks at the lake, to visiting her grandparents on their farm (and seeing the letterbox frog). Freya Blackwood's lush, classic illustrations convey Emily, and her quirky way of looking at the world, perfectly.