Princess Minna: The Dragon Egg Hunt

By Author / Illustrator

Kirsty Applebaum, Sahar Haghgoo

Genre

Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Age range(s)

Publisher

Nosy Crow Ltd

ISBN

9781805138075

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

12-03-2026

Synopsis

Princess Minna loves to sort out mix-ups and mishaps in the kingdom! In this full-colour, illustrated chapter book, join her on her hilarious quest to be the best princess OF ALL!

A cheerful, colourful story about a chocolate egg hunt with a difference! Princess Minna lives in Castle Tall-Towers with the King and Queen, Raymond the Wizard and her best dragon friend, Lorenzo. There are often mix-ups and mishaps in the kingdom and Princess Minna loves to sort them out!

Lorenzo the dragon has set up a brilliant egg hunt for the townspeople, with eggs of all shapes and sizes and colours and patterns. But he's accidentally hidden his mum's special dragon egg too and he's going to be in big trouble! Can Princess Minna find the special egg before someone eats it? Of course she can...

Full of colourful illustrations, these short, funny stories are perfect for readers just moving on from picture books and visual readers.

Have you read these tutti-frutti Minna adventures?: Princess Minna: The Best Princess; Princess Minna: The Giant Beanstalk; Princess Minna: The Unicorn Mix-Up; and lots more!

Reviews

Jen

What child wouldn't be drawn to a brightly coloured book with a dragon and a princess on the front? Princess Minna: The Dragon Egg Hunt grabbed the attention of all the children in my class (ages 5 and 6) straight away!

Minna lives with her parents, a dragon and a wizard in a castle. Her best friend is Lorenzo the dragon. In this adventure, Lorenzo is setting up a dragon egg hunt for their friends in the kingdom. He gets his mum to make the eggs but on the morning of the hunt they all awake to the sound of seagull. This is a sign in the kingdom that something is wrong. Lorenzo's mum has sent an egg to the castle which should not be there. How will they find it? Can they find it in time?

Princess Minna: The Dragon Egg Hunt is full of adventure and excitement. I would love to have been a part of the hunt! The illustrations are fabulous with bright pops of colour. Sahar Haghgoo has captured this kingdom well.

This is a perfect book for children who have learned all there phonics (end of year 1 / six-year-olds) or children who are ready for a longer bedtime story that can be read over several nights. I will be looking out for other books in this series for my class to enjoy.

96 pages / Reviewed by Jen Bevan, teacher