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The Princess and

When a Dragon Comes to Stay

4.00 (132 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Caryl Hart Rosalind Beardshaw

Illustrated by: Rosalind Beardshaw

A warm and funny picture book about behaving yourself when visiting friends, created by the award-winning Caryl Hart and Rosalind Beardshaw.

When a dragon comes to stay, will she behave herself? Why, of course she will. Obviously she knows she must share her toys and skip happily upstairs at bathtime. Well . . . not quite. Like all toddlers, this little dragon finds good manners a tiny bit tricky. It's lucky she has some friends to help her . . . she is a DRAGON after all!

This delightful rhyming story is full of recognisable pre-school behaviour, and part of a series that includes When a Dragon Comes to Stay and When a Dragon Meets a Baby.

Caryl Hart is the author of books and series including The Princess and the . . . and How to Grow a Dinosaur. She has won many awards including a Magnola Book Award, the Geoffrey Trease Prize for Children's Writing, the Oldham Brilliant Books Award and the Stockport Brilliant Book Awards.

Rosalind Beardshaw is the illustrator of My Pet Star by Corrinne Averiss, which won the Sainsbury's Book Award and also won the Sheffield Baby Book Award.

Related activity sheets available on the Nosy Crow website.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 270 x 270mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Mar 2019
  • Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 0-5
  • ISBN13: 9781788001977

About Caryl HartRosalind Beardshaw

Caryl Hart (Author)
Caryl Hart is an award-winning children's author who writes picture books and young fiction. She runs creative literacy workshops for schools, libraries, communities and festivals. The Girl who Planted Trees won Teach Early Years Best Picture Book Award 2022 and was chosen as one of the best books of 2022 by the Children's Laureate, Joseph Coelho.

Meet the Oceans was one of Waterstones' Best Books for Babies & Toddlers 2021 and Books for Topics' Best EYFS Curriculum Support 2021, and Girls Can Do Anything was shortlisted for the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2019.

Her best-selling Princess series has sold over a quarter of a million copies, and her books are published in numerous languages all over the world.


Caryl lives in Sheffield with her family and loves walking in the hills, cycling and wild swimming.

Rosalind Beardshaw (Illustrator)
Rosalind Beardshaw is the illustrator of several books for Nosy Crow, including the bestselling When a Dragon Comes to Stay and I See the Moon.

She loves creating new characters, especially if they can be based loosely/wholly on her shaggy lurcher, Basil.

She lives in York with her partner, Al, daughter, Iris, and young son, Freddie, who loves watching Calamity Jane.

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