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Description: The Ordinary Princess : Paperback : Penguin Putnam Inc : 9780142300855 : 0142300853 : 18 Mar 2002 : Along with wit, charm, health and courage, Princess Amy receives a special fairy christening gift--ordinariness. Can she ever find happiness being so plain? Illustrations. The Book Depository The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk

 

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Author: Arachne202

Rating: 5

Review: This was the first novel I ever bought with my own pocket money (aged eight), I read and re-read it to pieces, and now I'm reading it in instalments at bedtime to my six-year-old daughter. She is soaking in every word, and doesn't want me to stop. Set in the fictional kingdom of Phantasmorania, a royal family tries inviting fairies to the christening of their beautiful seventh baby daughter, only for one bad-tempered fairy to get caught in a traffic jam and crossly give the child the gift of Ordinariness. Princess Amy is not worried about this as she grows up, but once she is of marriageable age it creates a major diplomatic issue. The king decides to hire a dragon, and lock her away in a tower to be rescued by an over-excited prince. Amy thinks this is nonsense. So she runs away..... It is beautifully written, it contains a lot of gentle mickey-taking humour that knocks the current crop of plastic Disney princesses out of the water, and this new edition contains an introduction from M. M. Kaye on how she came to write the book (after a binge-read of Andrew Lang fairy tales, apparently), and M. M. Kaye's original pencil-sketch illustrations, which are different to the ones in my childhood edition, and are absolutely lovely. Reading age 8+ years.

 

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Review: Read this for the first time as an adult, and enjoyed it. A nice story.

 

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