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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
Read in two and a half hours. For no reason other than it beat doing anything else. It was fine.
Great "new" fairytale for girls. (She published it first in 1980.)
This was adorable! Amethyst is the seventh daughter in a royal family known for beauty. At her christening, she is blessed with a variety of gifts from the kingdom’s fairies, but the last fairy gives her an unexpected surprise: the gift of being ordinary. No longer beautiful, Amethyst becomes regular Amy, to the despair of the royal household. When no one can be found to marry such an ordinary looking girl, Amy decides to run away and have an adventure living in the forest.
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I don't know how many times I read this as a young girl but it was a lot. It was so fun to read this with my girls! It has probably been around 25 years (yikes!) since I read it last and it brought back pleasant memories of that time. I think my girl's really loved that the song "Lavender's Blue" was a thread running through the story and loosely holding it together since that is a song I have sung to them. They both identified with Amy (they both commented on how they have snubbed noses too) and how sometimes being ordinary is really being extra-ordinary. Abby commented on how the other princesses were all the same boring old thing which makes them more ordinary than the "ordinary princess" herself. I thought that was pretty perceptive for a 7 year-old. Proud momma.
Hm. everyone loved this. ok, so the premise definitely had promise: a heroine who wasn't god forbid, a beautiful princess sporting the typical blonde hair and blue eyes... but the way it read still made me wish i was blonde and blue-eyed, fair skinned.
and the whole reason she's ignored is because she's a brunette. what kind of lesson would this teach to my also brunette, dark-eyed daughter? i'm thinking this book won't be the one to do it, sadly. i'm still on the lookout for some real spunky, feminist, strong female fairy tales for my daughter... this one has me still looking.
and the whole reason she's ignored is because she's a brunette. what kind of lesson would this teach to my also brunette, dark-eyed daughter? i'm thinking this book won't be the one to do it, sadly. i'm still on the lookout for some real spunky, feminist, strong female fairy tales for my daughter... this one has me still looking.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes