From #1 New York Times bestselling author Doreen Cronin and
Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator David Small comes a picture book
about how an extraordinary "ordinary" girl can save a kingdom with the
help of a mud fairy.
A glass kingdom is no place for a Mud Fairy. Bloom and her mud fairy
magic might be able to turn weeds into flowers and spin sand into glass,
but the people of the kingdom ceaselessly complain about the trails of
dirt and puddles of mud that seem to follow her every step, and finally
they cast her out.
But when the glass castle begins to crack, then cracks some more, the
King and Queen in a panic search for the long-banished fairy, but they
can't find Bloom anywhere. Desperate to save their home, they send their
meekest, most ordinary subject, a girl named Genevievewhose sole task
until now has been to polish the Queen's crystal sugar spoon--to coax
any worthy fairy to come and save the kingdom. Genevieve finds Bloom
exactly where the king and queen failed to see her, and Bloom knows
exactly how to save the kingdom. But it will take the two girls working
together, along with a mighty dollop of self-confidence--and some very
messy hands--to accomplish the extraordinary.