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Dec 24, 2012
Lisa Nocita
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Princess Violet, the only and much loved daughter of the King and Queen has heard stories all of her life from the master storyteller. She's become something of a storyteller herself. All of storyteller's tales feature beautiful princesses who spend most of their days being beautiful though not useful. Violet, who is dear and clever but not very dainty or beautiful, begins to doubt her own identity after a foray into a hidden tunnel brings her in contact with a dark, malevolent force imprisoned
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While this was, for my tastes, too long by half, I enjoyed it a lot. Especially, I liked the considerations of beauty and plainness--though the very pretty girl shown in the pictures irritated me. (It's one thing that she doesn't look like a classic fairy tale princess; we see that girl in the appropriate illustrations later; but would it have been so hard for the illustrator to at least show uneven eyes in the real princess's face?) I liked the multiverse concept, and the setting, and kept bein
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This showed up on a list of books about strong girls and boy, were they right. This is a fairy tale about a princess named Violet, who is not beautiful and believes then, that she can not be a real princess. She and her best friend, Demetrius, spend a lot of time exploring the castle and find that there are stories that have been hidden for thousands of years. The stories, however, endanger them all. This story has awesome themes of bravery, love, respect, and what it really means to be a prince
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Starts strong, sags a bit- the reader keeps saying 'don't go in that dark room, don't walk down that path!...'
interesting themes- family, love, overwhelming hobbies, friendship, jealousy, communication.
Gallant finish. ...more
interesting themes- family, love, overwhelming hobbies, friendship, jealousy, communication.
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I would read anything by Kelly Barnhill, including her laundry list (come on--I bet it rocks). What a marvelous storyteller and world builder! Read read read this one, as well as her marvelous The Mostly True Story of Jack. Bravo.
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