![]() ![]() ![]() 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.Įlements 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. In For Biddle's Sake, Parsley tries to forget her beloved prince and get used to life as a Biddlebum Toad. 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 The Princess Test, the author spoofs the notion that a pea can prove a person's pedigree. The high jinks begin in The Fairy's Mistake, which pokes fun at a meddlesome fairy whose plans for good go terribly awry. Now, for the first time, the six beloved Princess Tales are together in one magnificent volume: The request came at the perfect time, just as I was figuring out if I could quit my job to write full time. After Ella Enchanted came out, I sent it to my editor, who asked me to turn it into a chapter book and write two more. 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. The Fairy's Mistake by Gail Carson Levine Originally The Fairy's Mistake was a picture book that couldn't find a publisher. ![]()
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