The Fairy's Return and Other Princess Tales

About this book

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. Now for the first time the six beloved Princess Tales are together in one magnificent volume: The high jinks begin in The Fairys Mistake which pokes fun at a meddlesome fairy whose plans for good go terribly awry. In The Princess Test the author spoofs the notion that a pea can prove a persons pedigree. 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 For Biddles Sake Parsley tries to forget her beloved prince and get used to life as a Biddlebum Toad. The road to happily-ever-after isnt easy when a bakers son and a princess fall in love in The Fairys Return. Elements 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.