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y separately published work icon The Twelve Princesses single work   picture book   children's   fable  
Alternative title: 12 Princesses; Twelve Dancing Princesses
Note: Retold by Gordon Fitchett.
Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 The Twelve Princesses
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Retells the traditional tale in which the king's twelve daughters wear out their shoes every night while they are supposedly sleeping in their locked bedrooms. The illustrations show the characters depicted as ducks.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 1997 .
      Extent: 30p.
      Description: illus., col.
      ISBN: 0091834635
    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Red Fox , 1999 .
      Extent: 30p.
      ISBN: 0091837510 (pbk.)
Alternative title: Davazde Shahzade
Language: Persian
    • Tehran,
      c
      Iran,
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      Middle East, Asia,      :       Kavoshgar ,       1999 .
      Extent: 32p.
      Description: illus.
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Works about this Work

Untitled Joan Zahnleiter , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 13 no. 1 1998; (p. 30)
— Review of The Twelve Princesses Gordon Fitchett , 1997 single work picture book
Untitled John Cohen , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 42 no. 2 1998; (p. 9)
— Review of The Twelve Princesses Gordon Fitchett , 1997 single work picture book
Untitled John Cohen , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 42 no. 2 1998; (p. 9)
— Review of The Twelve Princesses Gordon Fitchett , 1997 single work picture book
Untitled Joan Zahnleiter , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 13 no. 1 1998; (p. 30)
— Review of The Twelve Princesses Gordon Fitchett , 1997 single work picture book
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