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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is one of my favorite books of all time. It was given as a gift to me when I was very young. It helped me get through some very awkward years of my youth. When my original copy was destroyed in a flood, I went to great lengths to replace. I recommend this novel for EVERY young girl. Forget Twilight, this is the book to give your daughter, niece, godchild, etc . . . ( )The Ordinary Princess is very short. It's a lovely story about the youngest princess who is given the gift of being ordinary. When her parents start turning to desperate measures to get her married, Amy runs away to live in the forest with her companions - Mr Pemberthy (a squirrel) and Peter Aurelious (crow). This happy existence is interrupted by the deterioration of Amy's clothes. In order to purchase new ones, Amy gets a job as a kitchen maid at the castle in a neighbouring kingdom... and makes an unexpected friend. It's sweet, humourous and forgivably predictable. (It is, afterall, a princess story written for children.) It has amusing illustrations, and is a clever twist on the traditional tales. I wish I had read it as a child, but I certainly don't regret having read now. A fun children's story about being special in spite of being ordinary. Fun, if not particularly deep. Are princes not required to look all alike? Not even heroic ones? I always enjoy fairy tales with twists. Hmmm, I'd like to see this particular twist twisted again - a beautiful, goldenhaired princess who is also intelligent, capable and independent. The princes don't really need much - there are handsome and plain ones, the difference is in their attitudes and that varies all over the place. Anyway, good story. 0.042 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0142300853, Paperback)Along with Wit, Charm, Health, and Courage, Princess Amy of Phantasmorania receives a special fairy christening gift: Ordinariness. Unlike her six beautiful sisters, she has brown hair and freckles, and would rather have adventures than play the harp, embroider tapestries . . . or become a Queen. When her royal parents try to marry her off, Amy runs away and, because she's so ordinary, easily becomes the fourteenth assistant kitchen maid at a neighboring palace. And there . . . much to everyone's surprise . . . she meets a prince just as ordinary (and special) as she is!"This delightful fairy tale is sure to please young romantics . . . Neither Kaye's princess nor her book should be considered ordinary." (School Library Journal) (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:53 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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