A Spoonful of Trouble

Why it is on our radar

Kingfisher’s heroine rejects courtly expectations in favor of monster-fighting, with an enchanted spoon, a goat and a cursed tradition supplying the book’s practical, comic fantasy.

About the book

A middle-grade fairy tale about a royal twin who is bad at the traditional work of being a princess but sees the recurring monster invasion known as the Trouble as a chance to prove she might be useful in a different way.