"Princess Esmeralda isn't exactly an ideal princess. Her laugh sounds like a donkey's bray rather than tinkling bells. She trips over her own feet more than she curtsies, and she hates the young Prince Jorge" whom her mother has decided she will wed. She needs someone to talk to. How about the talking frog she met in the swamp who claims to be a prince? The frog suggests that he just might be the way out of her difficult situation. If she kisses he and he turns out to be a prince, she could marry him instead. Unfortunately - or fortunately - the princess turns into a frog instead.
This book is most attractively packaged in pink with gilded letters, fancy trim, and a real crown-wearing, cushion-sitting frog. It is just one of many fairy tale retellings written by E. D. Baker.
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