TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hess,Megan
TI  - The velvet messenger
T2  - Young queens collection
SN  - 9781761212666
U1  - A823.4 23/eng/20240319
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Wurundjeri Country, Richmond, Victoria
PB  - Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
KW  - Girls
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Queens
KW  - Palaces
KW  - Locks and keys
KW  - Stories in rhyme
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Picture books
N1  - 3+ years
N2  - Best-selling illustrator Megan Hess shines in this astonishing new fairytale about the daughter of a locksmith, who finds a strange key belonging to the queen. Violet lives in the wintry forest with her mother, a renowned locksmith. Her mother taught her many things, but the two most important were how to pick a lock in an emergency, and to always trust your instincts and when Violet finds a lost key belonging to the Queen, she'll need to do both if she wants to survive her visit to the Palace
ER  -