The Little Legends book series was launched in February this year through Pan Macmillan and the first two books have been a big hit here. Tom Percival brings well-loved fairy tale characters back to life in these clever and witty stories aimed at children aged 5 years and over.
The first two books in the series are The Spell Thief and The Great Troll Rescue, both are set in the magical town of Tale Town and as you start to read the books you quickly realise that the characters are all based on well known characters. In The Spell Thief, the central character is Jack – very much based on the Jack and the Beanstalk character, he has a talking hen called Betsy and friends including Red (Red Riding Hood), Rapunzel and even Hansel and Gretel.
The paperback books are chapter books with large text fonts and some illustrations throughout. Monkey is a reluctant reader, so I’ve been reading the Little Legends stories to him, and I have to say, we’ve both enjoyed them.
In The Spell Thief, Jack and his friends come across Anansi, who has just sailed into port. He’s based on the original Spiderman of West African legend, and a new character for Monkey to enjoy. It’s fair to say that Jack is not impressed with the new boy in town or his tricks. He’s convinced that Anansi must be a troll, and we follow him as he tries to prove this to his friends. There are mermaids and, blind mice and farmers wives to meet along the way. Jacks actions don’t go down well with his friends. Can he see Anansi for who he really is and make amends with his friends?
In The Great Troll Rescue Jack, Anansi, Rapunzel and Betsy the hen are trying to find Anansi’s mum. They believe she’s been washed up on Squirrel Nose Island after a ship wreck. But things don’t go according to plan and the friends end up being captured by a witch and locked in a tower. Even Rapunzel’s hair won’t save them. It’s up to Red and Cole the Fairy Godbrother to rescue everyone and put pay to the wicked witch and her spells. Will they succeed?
The Little Legends book series are really good fun, well written and we can’t wait for the next book in the series, The Genie’s Curse, to be released. We can thoroughly recommend them to any young reader. I’ve included my Amazon Affiliate links below for your reference.
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Snow white – she is very kind and loves animals!
the ugly duckling – a great role model for children x
Cinderella – I love the story theme of rag to riches!
Little Red Riding Hood, i just love the story x
cinderella cos i love how she starts off poor and lonely then becomes a princess
I like Beauty and the Beast the best because it is a love that grows over time
Snow White, she seems so kind to all!
Snow White Such a beautiful love story xxx
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
Andersen can be mawkish and morally mean, but this story is as near-perfect a fairytale as can be: the boy Kai, in frozen thrall to a cruel, enchanting mother figure, is saved by the loyalty and courage of Gerda
Cinderella an uplifting story and something we all dream at some point of our lives
Rapunzel for er long golden locks
Little Red Riding Hood. I like her cloak, and she realises that there is someone / something pretending to be her GrandMa. She is observant, something which can assist us to keep ourselves safe, help us recognise and avoid danger.
The 3 Little Pigs for sticking together
Cinderella – love the story of rag to riches
Cinderella, she went through so much, but came out of it in the end
I always wanted hair as long as Rapunzel
the ugly duckling I really empathized, it gave me hope that I too would become beautiful
Rapunzel 🙂 just because xx
Three little pigs such an exciting story to play along with
Cinderella, I love how much she cares for the little mice!
Goldilocks & the 3 bears, because i like that the children can join in with there teddy’s.
Rapunzel was always my favourite xx
I like the tortoise from The Hare and The Tortoise, I’m just like that too!
Cinderella, a lovely fairy tale ending
My girls love the Emperors New Clothes, they think its a really funny story
I love Snow White her story has all the elements of a classic fairytale.
My daughter loves Cinderella, she adores princesses and stories with a happy ending xx
Rapunzel – I loved her hair!
snow white as i jut love the story
Rapunzel, locked up in a tower and still came out smiling. and in the film she has a chameleon, I love chameleons
Loved The Princess and the Pea, was fascinated by the story and liked the illustration of the princess perched on top of all her mattresses x
I love little red riding hood , she is feisty, clever and can take care of herself everything a girl should be 🙂 and and she looks fabulous in red!
Sleeping beauty, I’m still waiting for my prince, I must be the last on the list
Thumbelina because she’s cute and tiny!
I love the dwarfs from Snow White. They are so funny and cute.
I liked Hercules as he is bare strong
Cinderella; probably the most well known fairy tale. She gets the prince and everything turns out well in the end. Everyone loves a happy ending.
Snow white because she works hard x
Cinderella because she is beautiful x
I like Belle because she saw best what the Beast looked like and gave him a chance! True love! These books look great, my two would enjoy reading them 🙂 x
Love Little Red Riding Hood,Like the way the big bad wolf is defeated
Cinderella – Patience pays off
My daughter and I love Red Riding Hood as in all the versions of the book that we have she defeats the wolf and is clever and brave!
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My favourite is The Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood and the 3 little pigs (wonder if it’s the same Wolf?!….he pops up everywhere and give him his due he tries
Hansel and Gretal, Like the house made of ginger bread 🙂
Cinderella as the name always reminds me of my eldest daughter Ella
Little red riding hood- I like her fiestiness
The Little Red Hen – I think she is fantastic for teaching children a great lesson on helping each other
love little red riding hood
Cinderella – a rags to riches story!
I always loved Sleeping Beauty 🙂
Little Red Riding Hood. A great story and also a little scary.
Rapunzel, the family favourite
Cinderella – such a lovely romantic story
Snow White as I love the dwarves
Cinderella as she proves a shoe can change your life!
the princess from the princess and the pea x
My favourite is little red riding hood for standing up to the big bad wolf and save her grandma
I still love Snow White so powerful
Cinderella as after everything she was put through she got her happy ending
Cinderella because I love the fairytale ending.
Snow White as she can summon help with the housework so easily
Little Red Riding Hood – I always thought she was so sweet and brave goung to visit nanny through the woods every day and to be honest I felt a little sorry for her obviously poor eyesight 😉
Snow White because she’s kind and trusting.
My favourite is Rumpelstiltkin becauses he’s one of the under appreciated fairy tale characters and I always liked that story
Snow White because she is lucky to have 7 dwarfs looking after her
Rapunzel because she defeats the evil witch and gets her Prince.
I like Belle from Beauty and the Beast because she saw the beasts real self and got to live in a lovely castle.
Love the little mermaid
I have always liked Little Red Riding Hood because she visits her grandma, but I also like the story of the three little pigs
Alice for her curiosity
Hansel and Grete, so scary, but love the gingerbread house.
Snow white very kind and loving
Rapunzel was always my favourite with her lovely long hair and lowering it so her prince could climb up to her in the tower.
Rapunzel – its more realistic
Geppetto, Pinocchio’s father, because he would do anything for his child
I’ve always loved Alice, she has always reminded me of myself!
i love rapunzel… that hair!! if only i could get to go past my shoulders without splitting and looking like a toilet brush!
The Princess and the pea, as I remember this book from my child hood and read it to my little girl
Little red riding hood. Just because I liked the story
Snow White – I just like her story
I love Sleeping Beauty. After many sleepless nights I kind of wish I could be her!
Goldilocks – the first book my wee man really got into. I think he preferred the bears!
Cinderella because I love the happy ending 🙂
snow white i’ve always thought i look like her lol
Cinderella as Karma triumphs.
I love The Princess and the Frog such a lovely story 🙂
Cinderella – good always triumphs
We love Snow white – shes awesome 🙂
Jack from Jack and the beanstalk. He swapped his only way to get food for some magic beans! Pretty cool!!
Little Red Riding Hood – hey that girl got ahead of fashion before we caught on that cloaks look good!
Cinderella lovely story of love winning despite the odds
jiminy cricket. caring, helpful, sompassionate.
snow white I always loved reading it.
Goldilocks – a girl that knows what she likes.
I used to love Cinderella, loved her dresses
I like sleeping beauty because she is awoken with a kiss 🙂
Snow White – she managed to get animals to do her housework for her!
Repunzal because she is just awsome.
I love Cinderella – both the rags to riches and the way that the bad guys get their comeuppance.
Little Red Riding Hood
Red riding hood i like how she wanted to help her granny
I love Rapunzel because I am a sucker for a happy ending. x
Tinker Bell
Because I love to Tinker and create things. For many many years now my nickname has been Tink.