The Happy Prince
THE HAPPY PRINCE. A re-telling of Oscar Wilde timeless story about the golden statue of a prince and the little swallow that alights at its feet one evening on his way to Egypt. It includes a CD with the story told in a ten minute song. Full page colour illustrations throughout. 32 pages. “Parents from…
WRITTEN BY
Rosie Boom
About This Book
THE HAPPY PRINCE. A re-telling of Oscar Wilde timeless story about the golden statue of a prince and the little swallow that alights at its feet one evening on his way to Egypt. It includes a CD with the story told in a ten minute song. Full page colour illustrations throughout. 32 pages. “Parents from around the world will want to share this very moving story with their children. I give it a 5–star recommendation.” – Jules Riding, singer-songwriter, New Zealand.
Website: www.rosieboom.com
Writer: Rosie Boom
About The Writer
Rosie Boom
ROSIE BOOM, author, speaker and singer-songwriter, lives with her husband Chris and their six children on a small lifestyle block near Whangarei. She spent her childhood in the jungles of New Guinea, and wrote her first short story there at age nine. It won an Australasian short story competition and Rosie received a first edition copy of The Fellowship of the Ring as a prize. She is a registered nurse, and worked for a year in Borneo before returning to NZ to marry Chris. They have six children whom Rosie home schools. She speaks at many homeschooling conventions and parenting workshops throughout NZ and overseas. She began writing in earnest in 1999 and a number of her short stories and articles have been published in the NZ School Journal and overseas magazines. She has had seven books published.
Website: www.rosieboom.com
Photo: Phil Botha | www.NZChristianWriters.org
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