This is one of my favorite picture books of all time--I find it great for five and up. Like, way up. It's fantastic for teaching story structure, I think, and for talking about impulsivity and creativity. I am so happy Molly loves it too!
This cute, mad-lib style fairy tale tells two parallel stories, one of a princess is whose stepfather locks her up because he doesn't want to lose her pie-baking talents, and the other of Ned, the hapless artist who is trying to build/illustrate the story. Running out of time to complete the scenes,...