With his scaly green fingers, Ernest unscrewed the hooks from the wall, leaving the cloaks in a heap on the floor. He lined up the hooks on his desktop, glanced at the spell one last time, and pulled his wand from his cloak pocket. As he waved his wand above the hooks, he chanted, “Vroomity Proomity Verity Prive! Make Firefly’s Books Come Alive!”
Ernest waited for a flash of light or a swirl of wind. He watched the hooks for any sign that they were turning purple or growing wheels. But instead, thunder rumbled in the distance and the palace lights flickered. Ernest nervously glanced out the window just in time to see three bolts of orange lightning tear across the sky.
“Oh dear! Oh dear!” Ernest said. “I’ve done it again!” He reread the spell and grimaced. “I must have been so excited for Firefly’s new library that I said the wrong thing. Hopefully she won’t notice anything amiss.” He sighed. And then he smiled to himself and added, “But I still really do want to drive a plum car!”
He read through the spell again. He lifted his wand. He opened his mouth. But before he could say, “Vroomity,” six more orange lightning bolts flashed and thunder boomed so loudly the hooks rattled against his desktop.
Ernest paused. He grimaced. “On second thought, maybe I’d better try something else,” he said.
Emily Bliss lives just down the street from a forest. From her living room window, she can see a big oak tree with a magic keyhole. Like Cressida Jenkins, she knows that unicorns are real.
Sydney Hanson was raised in Minnesota alongside numerous pets and brothers. She has worked for several animation shops, including Nickelodeon and Disney Interactive. In her spare time she enjoys traveling and spending time outside with her adopted brother, a Labrador retriever named Cash. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Text copyright © 2018 by Emily Bliss
Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Sydney Hanson
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First published in the United States of America in April 2018 by Bloomsbury Children’s Books
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bliss, Emily, author. | Hanson, Sydney, illustrator.
Title: Moon’s dance / by Emily Bliss ; illustrated by Sydney Hanson.
Description: New York : Bloomsbury, 2018. | Series: Unicorn princesses ; 6
Summary: Cressida eagerly accepts Princess Moon’s invitation to attend the annual Starlight Ball, but when Ernest the wizard-lizard causes the ballroom to disappear, the unicorn princesses must magically prepare another space.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017020573 (print) | LCCN 2017036916 (e-book)
ISBN: 978-1-6811-9653-4 (HB)
ISBN: 978-1-6811-9652-7 (PB)
ISBN: 978-1-6811-9654-1 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Balls (Parties)—Fiction. | Unicorns—Fiction. | Princesses—Fiction. | Magic—Fiction. | Fantasy.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.B633 Moo 2018 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.B633 (e-book) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017020573
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