TY - BOOK AU - Verplancke,Klaas TI - The king's golden beard SN - 9781662650390 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Minedition KW - Kings, queens, rulers, etc KW - Fiction KW - Beards KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Hair KW - Kings and rulers KW - Pride and vanity KW - Humorous fiction KW - lcgft KW - Picture books N1 - "A Maria Russo book." N2 - The lush, golden, royal beard is a wondrous thing--especially to the king himself. He spends his days admiring and grooming it, and passes laws making it a crime punishable by death for anyone else's face to sport even a single hair. As the people of the kingdom nervously shave daily, the royal beard grows and grows until it appears at the palace's back gate. What happens next will have readers laughing along--and cheering for the astronomers who, unlike the tyrannical king, know that the earth is round ER -