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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
You could never be too old to enjoy this amazing fairy tale novella. In a world which considers external beauty synonymous with internal purity this is a novelty to cherish. As the author informs us in the foreword our fairy tale genre keeps silent on the situation of gawky, snub-nosed, mouse coloured hairy princesses. It looks like the cutey princes had eyes only for those "lissome Royal Highness with large blue eyes and yards of golden hair and probably nothing whatever between her ears!" (Blimey! Is the real life any different???)
So Kaye has come up with the story of Princess Amy who is gifted with ordinariness in her birth, a gift that made her free from the boring courtly life of rules and restrictions. I have never found a book so wickedly funny and even if you know how it will end (as always with all fairy tales), the narration combined with the wonderful illustrations will keep you engaged throughout the story.
If you want to know the summary, please visit my blog:
http://finithajose.blogspot.in/2016/07/the-ordinary-princess-m-m-kaye.html
So Kaye has come up with the story of Princess Amy who is gifted with ordinariness in her birth, a gift that made her free from the boring courtly life of rules and restrictions. I have never found a book so wickedly funny and even if you know how it will end (as always with all fairy tales), the narration combined with the wonderful illustrations will keep you engaged throughout the story.
If you want to know the summary, please visit my blog:
http://finithajose.blogspot.in/2016/07/the-ordinary-princess-m-m-kaye.html
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
Adorbs. Very sweet and clever and a little predictable, but only in the way that fairy tales always have that feeling of inevitability, so it's okay. It reminded me a lot of Princess Pigsty, by Cornelia Funke (one of my favorite picture books!).
A charming chapter-book fairy tale about a princess who, in spite of her gifts of charm and wit, is quite plain-looking.
Read this book as a kid. Made me feel appreciative of myself, because as a young girl who was OBSESSED with princesses... None of them really looked like me. I was overweight, shy and kinda short. And even though I saw myself as *normal* it still made me feel a little sad that I didn't look like any princess that I had seen. On Disney or otherwise.
But this book made me really like being "ordinary" because it's a gift not a curse, no matter what anyone says. And there's nothing wrong with being a normal "princess".
But this book made me really like being "ordinary" because it's a gift not a curse, no matter what anyone says. And there's nothing wrong with being a normal "princess".
Can't remember how old (young) I was when I read this but it was so long ago.
A lovely, fairy tale with a subtle moral of being true to yourself and loving yourself, even your ordinary-ness. While the story has chapters and substance, it is a shorter book appropriate for pre-school listeners and early elementary readers. I am looking forward to reading this out loud to my kids.
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Darcy recommended this to me months ago and I finally managed to track it down. It's a fun, witty fairy tale revamp in which a young princess, at her fairy christening, is given the gift of ordinariness. Kaye's prose style (which to me seemed wonderfully dry and English) was very enjoyable to read; I didn't, however, enjoy this quite as much as I thought I was going to. I'm actually totally willing to blame myself for this: I think I started overthinking it—"Wouldn't it be much more transgressive," I thought, "for the king to fall in love with and marry a real kitchen maid rather than a princess disguised as one? And Amy really isn't that bright." Shut up, brain. Sometimes I am just cranky.