The Genies Curse

The Genie’s Curse is the third highly illustrated adventure in Tom Percival’s Little Legends series, which gives familiar fairy-tale characters inventive new stories. Rapunzel is enjoying life as a princess until she accidentally breaks a magical urn and blames her new friend Ella—Cinderella—for it. Unfortunately, the urn is home to a furious hermit genie, who responds by placing a curse on Rapunzel: everyone in Tale Town now blames her whenever anything goes wrong. With Ella’s help and assistance from a mysterious green monkey named Alphege, Rapunzel must face the consequences of her actions, uncover the truth, and find a way to lift the curse. Full of spells, humour, magical mishaps, short chapters, and lively illustrations, the story explores honesty, friendship, responsibility, and learning to put things right. It is well suited to independent readers aged around 6–8.