For anyone who loves magic and fairytales this is your book! | The Fairy's Return and Other Princess Tales...

Magical in every respect | The Fairy's Return and Other Princess Tales | Gail Carson Levine

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	• The Fairy's Return and Other Princess Tales Gail Carson Levine HarperCollins, 2009 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fairy tales delightfully revised and updated

This a collection of fairy tales that are new versions of some classic stories including Sleeping Beauty, the Princess and the Frog, the Princess and the Pea, and the Golden Goose. Several are based on some less well known stories. I found it interesting to compare the classic versions to those included in the book. It is nice to see the protagonists all use their intelligence and wits to reach their goals. There are some fun twists as well- "Sleeping Beauty" knows about the curse and doesn't want the prince to kiss her. There is some clever wordplay to amuse adults and older children. For example, "Sleeping Beauty" is Princess Sonora. The tales are all well written and delightful to read.

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For anyone who loves magic and fairytales this is your book!

The Fairys Return has 6 beautiful fairtale retellings. Its hard to choose a favorite one. I really liked Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep its a retelling of Sleeping Beauty and in this tale she is not only beautiful but very intelligent. Then there is, "The Princess Test," which is a retelling of, "The Princess and the Pea." This so called princess is actually a peasent with very soft skin. I also like The Fairys Return But if you like fairytales or just girlish fantasys than this book is for you. Gail Carson Levine is my new favorite author although I didn't care too much for, "Fairest." It wasn't too much like Snow White. But if you liked Ella Enchanted and the Princesses of Bamarre read this you will love it!

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Magical in every respect

Since I was young, I loved Gail Carson Levine. After watching too much of Disney, it was a refreshing look at romance and fairy tales. Told in a very contemporary, but also very conservative style, Levine never fails to evoke thought, emotion, and laughter. Her protagonists are quirky and charming and enchanting in every fashion, and her antagonists are disgusting and much-abhorred-- everything is black and white, just as a classic fairy tale would be!
Right now, I am fourteen, but whenever I'm too tired of reading Tolstoy or Dickens, I peruse my ol' book shelf and find Levine's princess tales! They are entertaining and fun and addictive-- especially to a romantic such as myself.
Oh, and it doesn't hurt the imagination to know that, in Levine's world, Cinderella is a boy! :)

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Wonderful book

My daughter begged for this for her birthday. She read it 5x from the library, and was thrilled to have her own copy. It has several fun stories from the author of Ella Enchanted (which she didn't like as much). She is an excellent reader (started reading Harry Potter soon after), and was able to read it at age 8, although it is intended for older girls.

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Gail Carson Levine is well-known for taking familiar fairy tales and weaving them with her own magic. THE FAIRY'S REUTRN AND OTHER PRINCESS TALES is no exception. In this collection of the six popular Princess Tales, Levine has rewritten six familiar (and some not-so-familiar) stories until they are virtually unrecognizable.

In THE FAIRY'S MISTAKE, which is based on the fairy tale "Toads and Diamonds," two very different sisters are each granted a gift by the fairy Ethelinda. Ethelinda feels that her gifts are both well-deserved, so it comes as a great surprise when she discovers that neither gift brought the results she had planned.

THE PRINCESS TEST, which is based on "The Princess and the Pea," tells the story of Lorelei, a blacksmith's daughter, and the prince who falls in love with her. However, the prince's father is determined that his son should marry a princess, so he designs a series of tests to ensure the bride's pedigree. Nicholas still wants to marry Lorelei, but how can she ever pass the tests if she's not a real princess?

PRINCESS SONORA AND THE LONG SLEEP is based on "Sleeping Beauty." As a baby, Princess Sonora is granted many gifts, each fairy trying to outdo the others and bestow the best gift. As a result, Sonora is a beautiful, precocious young child, and she decides to wait until the opportune moment to prick her finger, which will put the castle to sleep for one-hundred years, as promised by the fairy Belladonna. Her plan, however, doesn't exactly go as planned.

In CINDERELLIS AND THE GLASS HILL, which is based on "The Princess on the Glass Hill," Cinderellis is a lonely boy inventor who is ignored and made fun of by his brothers. Princess Marigold is equally lonely, and wishes she had someone to talk to other than her cat. When Marigold's father decides that it's time for her to marry, he puts her on a glass hill that suitors will have to climb, and it will take Cinderellis' best invention yet to win her hand.

FOR BIDDLE'S SAKE is based on "Puddocky," and tells the story of Parsley, a young girl who loves eating parsley. Unfortunately, the only place that parsley grows is in the garden of the fairy Bombina, who is in jail for turning too many people into toads. When Bombina is released and Parsley is accidentally turned into a toad, she must find a way to make the most of the situation, and maybe even help someone else along the way.

In THE FAIRY'S RETURN, which is based on "The Golden Goose," the fairy Ethelinda is back, and she's nervous about giving any more gifts. But when a baker's son and a princess fall in love and the king forbids their marriage, she just has to do something! So she hopes that everything goes well and gives the baker's son a golden goose.

All six of these stories were absolutely wonderful, full of humor, magic, and love. If you're a fan of Ella Enchanted (Trophy Newbery) or The Two Princesses of Bamarre, you definitely shouldn't miss this book!

Reviewed by: Andie Z.

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What would you do if diamonds and rubies tumbled out of your mouth every time you spoke? Well, that?s what happens to Rosella after a run with a misguided fairy in "A Fairy?s Mistake." If you were turned into a toad, would you pine after your prince as much as Parsley does in "For Biddle?s Sake?"

The road to happily-ever-after is never easy, but the masterful touch of Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine will keep readers laughing their way through these fresh retellings of popular fairy tales.

All six of Gail Carson Levine?s beloved PRINCESS TALES in one book!

THE FAIRY?S MISTAKE

THE PRINCESS TEST

PRINCESS SONORA AND THE LONG SLEEP

CINDERELLLIS AND THE GLASS HILL

FOR BIDDLE?S SAKE

THE FAIRY?S RETURN

Ages 7-12

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