My friend, Rachel, loaned me this book and I had such fun reading it. It's a compilation of fairy tales. All of them have a twist that makes them different from the original. I really liked reading these stories and was wishing that Anika was just a little older so that I could read them to her. It's very easy reading and would be perfect for a little girl that is a bit older and doesn't mind being without pictures. If you have a daughter then I would definitely purchase this one! I haven't read any of Gail Carson Levine's other books but I've heard they are wonderful. She is the author of ELLA ENCHANTED.
Book Description(from Amazon):
Ever since Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine introduced the magical village of Snettering-on-Snoakes in the faraway Kingdom of Biddle, young readers have been laughing their way through her hilarious retellings of famous and not-so-famous fairy tales.
Now, for the first time, the six beloved Princess Tales are together in one magnificent volume:
The high jinks begin in The Fairy's Mistake, which pokes fun at a meddlesome fairy whose plans for good go terribly awry. In The Princess Test, the author spoofs the notion that a pea can prove a person's pedigree. Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep features a genius of a princess, a hundred years of snooze, two princes, and a flock of balding sheep! Cinderella is a boy in Cinderellis and the Glass Hill, and the glass slipper is a glass hill. In For Biddle's Sake, Parsley tries to forget her beloved prince and get used to life as a Biddlebum Toad. The road to happily-ever-after isn't easy when a baker's son and a princess fall in love in The Fairy's Return.
Elements of the classics are woven into these not-so-typical retellings of "Toads and Diamonds," "The Princess and the Pea," "Sleeping Beauty," "The Princess on the Glass Hill," "Puddocky," and "The Golden Goose." The fresh and funny twists on favorite fairy tales will win the hearts and capture the imaginations of young readers everywhere.
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so i LOVE to read and i'm glad to have this list of recomendations to add some of them to my list, i haven't read all of them...
I havent' read this one but I did enjoy "Fairest" by her. And of course Ella Enchanted!
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