Happily Ever After - Hardcover

Quindlen, Anna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670869619 ISBN 13: 9780670869619

Publisher: Viking Juvenile, 1997

Synopsis

Kate, having been magically carried away into the land of fairy tales, finds things to be much less enjoyable than she had thought, finding herself uncomfortable with the clothes she wears, uninterested in the prince's songs, and unfamiliar with her new chores.

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Review:

Eight-year-old Kate is a tomboy, but not your typical tomboy. She loves baseball and hates wearing dresses, but she can often be found in her room reading a good old fairy tale and imagining herself as the beautiful princess. One day, while dreamily staring at the princess's crown, Kate magically wishes herself into the fairy tale. Now Kate is the princess and she will soon find out that being royalty isn't all that it's cracked up to be. After rescuing herself from the evil knight (the "wimp" of a prince couldn't manage this on his own), teaching a witch and troll to play jacks, and training her ladies-in-waiting in the art of baseball, Kate finds the princess life pretty dull and wishes her way back home. Kate realizes that being her old tomboy self, minus the crown, isn't so bad, and in fact it's pretty great. Author Anna Quindlen's charming story will appeal to all children interested in dragons, knights, adventures, and living happily ever after. (Ages 5 to 9)

About the Author:

Anna Quindlen, whose New York Times column won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize, is the author of the essay collections Thinking Out Loud and Living Out Loud; the bestselling novels Object Lessons, One True Thing, and Black and Blue; and two children's books. The mother of three, she lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Juvenile
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0670869619
• ISBN 13: 9780670869619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Stevenson James