Straw Into Gold_Fairy Tales Re-Spun by Hilary McKay & Sarah Gibb

Author:Hilary McKay & Sarah Gibb [McKay, Hilary & Gibb, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1534432841
Amazon: B07GNSQKNL
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 2019-02-05T00:00:00+00:00

As the kitten grew older its adventures became wilder and wilder. One gray and stormy evening the Princess glanced out of her tower-room window just in time to see a streak of silver scamper over the drawbridge, cross the castle gardens, and then disappear, like a blown-out star, into the shadows of the forest.

My goodness! thought Hatty, remembering all the tales she had heard of owls and hawks and foxes and wolves, and she raced out of her room and down the long staircase and across the halls and through the front door and over the drawbridge and into the garden, still wearing the green-and-gold dress and the sparkling gilt crown that she had put on to please her grandparents.

Under the forest trees it was very nearly dark, so it was lucky that the castle kitten was so silvery bright. It glimmered like a firefly in front of the Princess, just bright enough for her to see where it was. It scampered very merrily and quickly, deeper and deeper into the forest . . . and after it, ran Hatty.

“Stop!” she called, but it wouldn’t stop. It didn’t stop for miles, until finally, in a clearing made by the falling of a huge old oak, Hatty managed to pick it up.

Then at last she could pause to catch her breath and look around.

The wind was rising. Black and silver clouds were being blown across the sky. There was moonlight, and then splatters of rain, and then moonlight again. There were also small green stars.

The stars were low down, among the tree trunks.

They were stars that blinked.

They were stars in pairs.

They were golden green.

They came closer.

When the Princess saw them, she clutched the kitten, rolled it in a bundle of gold-and-green skirts, and ran. As she ran, the moon was blotted into darkness and the wind rose to a howl and the splatters of rain became a hard, icy deluge. Although not quite hard and icy enough to scatter the wolves. Each time the lightning flashed, their eyes blinked again, and every time they were a little closer.

“Don’t worry!” panted Hatty to the kitten as she ran. “It’s only another adventure!”

The kitten purred. Its silvery whiskers were in perfect order. Its small velvet paws were dry. It was as warm as a bundle of sunshine, wrapped in the gold-and-green silk, and it liked adventures. Already that day it had explored the dizziest part of the castle battlements and the shiveriest corner of the cellars. And when things had become too dizzy or shivery, the Princess had arrived and scooped it to safety, just as she always did.

So the kitten was not worried at all, but the Princess was, quite a lot. When at last she saw a glow ahead, she gasped with relief. And then a flash of lightning outlined the palace, and she ran for the front door, and as she got closer she saw that the glow was the door knocker, made of glimmering golden brass.

“Saved!” she cried triumphantly,

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