Sunday, July 21, 2013

Frogged / Vivian Vande Velde / 198 pages / Fairy Tale Retelling Challenge

Through magical mischance Princess Imogene has been frogged.  When she meets a talking frog claiming to be a prince, she kisses him to release him from his spell.  It works!  However, Harry is not a prince but a bully who had been preying on a local witch.  Imogene is turned into a frog, finds no help from the witch who cast the spell, and is taken prisoner by a group of traveling actors.  Although Imogene was supposed to read The Art of Being a Princess before her upcoming thirteenth birthday, and she is not particularly good nor beautiful, her sense of fairness and integrity prevent her from accepting Prince Malcolm's offer to kiss him.  The resolution is creative and unexpected, and...they all lived happily ever after.

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