From the Newbery honor author of Ella Enchanted, an anthology of âinventiveâ fairy tale elements âwoven into charming, original storiesâ (Booklist).
Ever since award-winning 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 Fairyâs 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 personâs 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 Biddleâs Sake, Parsley tries to forget her beloved prince and get used to life as a Biddlebum Toad. The road to happily-ever-after isnât easy when a bakerâs son and a princess fall in love in The Fairyâs Return.
Elements of the classics are woven into these not-so-typical retellings of âToads and Diamonds,â âThe Princess and the Pea,â âSleeping Beauty,â âThe Princess on the Glass Hill,â âPuddocky,â and âThe Golden Goose.â 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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