Miss Wackham"s letter from school makes it as clear as daylight: Jasper Tippett must work hard at his reading. In fact, he has to get to page 42 of The Lonely Princess by tomorrow morning. Nightmare! Dreams don"t come any stranger than what happens next. The fearless foursome - Jasper, Bert Stiltskin the leprechaun, Princess Thally with a lithp and Wolfie the basset hound - set off on a mission to rescue a class-room full of kids imprisoned by the witch Isadora under her marshmallow cottage. Why is she keeping them there, aided by teacher"s pet Tarquin Sproat, who she"s turned into an enormous dung beetle? Maybe Adrian, the owl in need of a spell-check, Kark the wordy crow and mighty Ragnar Thorssen, the Troll on the Great Grumpus Mountain, can use their skills to help - or hinder - Jasper and his crew. Maybe they"ll be too late to save the prisoners from a fate worse than homework. Read on and find out!