Princess Angelica: Part-Time Lion Trainer

By Monique Polak and Jane Heinrichs

Our favorite pretend princess, Angelica, aka Jelly, is back! A case of mistaken identity, a wild imagination and a love of storytelling leads Jelly to tell her friend Joon and the new kid she's just met, Leo, that she's a part-time lion trainer at the local animal rescue center. Her inventiveness has them completely convinced, but things get a bit more complicated when the resident lioness, Mwezi, escapes from her enclosure and the kids look to Jelly’s "expertise" to save the day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Release date: Feb 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781459815490

Monique Polak

Monique Polak is the author of more than thirty books for young people. She is the three-time winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Prize for Children's and YA Literature for her novels Hate Mail, What World is Left and Room for One More. In addition to teaching at Marianopolis College in Montreal, Monique is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Maclean's Magazine, the Montreal Gazette and other Postmedia newspapers. She is also a columnist on ICI Radio-Canada's Plus on est de fous, plus on lit! In 2016, Monique was the CBC/Quebec Writers' Federation inaugural writer-in-residence. Monique lives in Montreal.

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Text copyright © 2019 Monique Polak

Illustrations copyright © 2019 Jane Heinrichs

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Polak, Monique, author

Princess Angelica, part-time lion trainer / Monique Polak; illustrated by Jane Heinrichs.

(Orca echoes)

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4598-1547-6 (softcover).—ISBN 978-1-4598-1548-3 (PDF).— ISBN 978-1-4598-1549-0 (EPUB)

I. Heinrichs, Jane, 1982–, illustrator II. Title. III. Series: Orca echoes

PS8631.O43P76 2019 j C813'.6 C2018-904869-7

C2018-904870-0

Simultaneously published in Canada and the United States in 2019

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018954077

Summary: In this illustrated early chapter book, Angelica allows a new friend to believe she is a part-time lion trainer.

Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs provided by the following agencies: the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

Edited by Liz Kemp

Cover artwork and interior illustrations by Jane Heinrichs

Author photo by John Fredericks

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Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

An Excerpt from Princess Angelica, Camp Catastrophe

Chapter One

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Chapter One

Where’s Mwezi? Do you think she escaped? Joon asks.

Joon and I are standing outside the giant enclosure at the animal rescue center where Mwezi lives.

I scan the grass and the small hill at the back of the enclosure. I spot a golden, tasseled tail under a low bush. A tassel is like a messy knot. Lions are the only cats with tasseled tails. There she is, I tell