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Loading... The Princess Knight (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards))by Cornelia Funke
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  Eowyn_33 | Oct 24, 2009 |  I really enjoyed this story about a young princess, the 4th of 4 children and the only girl. Since her mother died at birth, the princess was raised by her father (and a nanny). Since her father didn't know much about girls, he raised her just like his sons - with horse lessons, jousting, sword fighting, etc. macfly_17 | Nov 1, 2008 | A Feminist fairy tale about a princess who wins her own hand in marriage, and chooses her own path. The story shows young girls that they can make their own happiness and take charge of their lives. jadepumpsthejams | Oct 16, 2008 | Violetta is a little princess, who wishes she could be as big and strong as her brothers. But what she lacks in size she makes up for in determination. At night Violetta slips out into the woods and secretly teaches herself to become the cleverest, bravest, most nimble knight in the land. But when she has to fight the most important battle of all, will she be ready?" (  ) angellreads | Mar 21, 2007 | "Violetta is a little princess, who wishes she could be as big and strong as her brothers. But what she lacks in size she makes up for in determination. At night Violetta slips out into the woods and secretly teaches herself to become the cleverest, bravest, most nimble knight in the land. But when she has to fight the most important battle of all, will she be ready?" ( ) angellpictures | Feb 4, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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King Wilfred's three sons learn to become big, bad knights the way any boisterous boys would: "They learned riding and jousting, fighting with swords...They learned how to stride proudly and how to shout very loudly." At her father's urging, young Princess Violetta tries to keep up with the same lessons, "even though she was so small she could hardly lift a sword at all!" Despite her brothers' teasing and laughing, Violetta continues to practice--even secretly at night. Soon enough, Violetta becomes "so nimble and quick" that when practicing with her brothers, "their spears and swords just hit the empty air." But then King Wilfred does the unthinkable: For his Violetta's sixteenth birthday, he plans a jousting tournament designed to bring "the bravest knights in the land flocking to the castle" to win…her hand in marriage! Violetta is outraged: "You want me to marry some dimwit in a tin suit?" Fortunately, of course, the princess finds a way to come to her own rescue.
Funke does well in this picturebook format, but Kerstin Meyer's delicate and extremely cute illustrations set the quiet, measured (but still fun) tone of the Princess Knight, as she takes inspiration from a bona fide medieval piece of art--the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes
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Characterization: The princess is the protagonist in this story battling the antagonist of the situation in which she must overcome her inability to be as good a knight as her brothers.
Media: watercolor and pen & ink