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The Hinky-Pink
Megan McDonald

Living in Florence, Italy Princess Caramella summons the young seamstress Anabel to the castle and gives her the impossible task of creating a new ball gown in one short week.

Anabel is locked in a tower so no one will bother her while she works. But each night she is pinched and her covers fly off her bed. Maid Mag reveals that a hinky-pink spirit is unhappy because it doesn't have a bed. Anabel tries fashioning a bed from velvet curtains laid on a

table, but that is too high and hard. A cradle turns out to be too teetery, too tottery.

With the crabby hinky-pink spirit bothering her all the time, how will Anabel be able to finish the gown in time for the Butterfly Ball?