At this year’s FCBG conference, I was delighted to meet Abie Longstaff at last and had the pleasure to attend the seminar she led on her Fairytale Hairdresser picturebook series. It was a truly inspiring talk, explaining and illustrating how her fairy tale had come to life and how much thought had gone into every single …
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A picturebook a week: The Fairytale Hairdresser and Snow White
Abie Longstaff (text) & Lauren Beard (illustrations) (Picture Corgi) Another happy working day begins at Kittie’s Cuts, until the latest edition of The Looking Glass brings the worrying news that Snow White has disappeared and is in danger, with the Wicked Queen is on her trail. With the help of seven musical dwarves and a rather dashing …
Rapunzel Week (5): The Fairytale Hairdresser
Abie Longstaff (text) & Lauren Beard (illustrations)(Random House Children’s Books) Meet Kitty Lacey, hairdresser extraordinaire with an array of famous clients: from Little Red to Thumbelina, and from the Beast to Father Christmas, they all come to visit when their hair needs a trim. But when she is called to a rather threatening-looking tower, she …