Shall they lock Amy in a tower and hire a dragon to lay waste to the countryside, until a suitable prince comes along to slay the dragon and win her hand in marriage? Not if Amy has anything to say about it.Īnd say something she does: Goodbye. Dressed as a commoner, Amy goes out to escape from the fairy tale in which she has no hope of living up to her role.
She has seen all her older sisters married off, and now her royal parents are starting to worry about what to do with her.
Thanks to a crusty fairys christening curse (or is it a gift?), Amy has freckles, a snub nose, mousy hair, and a distressing tendency to prefer climbing trees to wearing brocaded gowns. Cheerful, brave, healthy, and graceful to be sure, but quite ordinary! But it has just this one twist: the Princess Amy is ordinary. Urn:oclc:876442405 Republisher_date 20120929011825 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120927224650 Scanner you ever noticed that in fairy tales, the princess is almost always blonde, blue-eyed, porcelain-doll pretty, and loaded with demure feminine accomplishments like embroidery and music? Has this pattern started to get a bit dull? Well, look no further than the present book, written (and illustrated), by a book illustrator who thought the same thing.ĭug out of a drawer and published years after it was written, it is a fairy tale with all the classic elements a youngest-of-seven-princesses who steals away from home, disguises herself as a peasant girl, gets a job as a kitchen maid in a kings castle, befriends little animals, and wins the young kings heart. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:38:29 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA15176 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition New ed.
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