by Sharon Creech
Slight fairy tale with pleasant illustrations contains no surprises but serves as a welcome diversion on a train journey through the heartland. I can't recommend it due to its lack of interesting situations.
One of the things I've enjoyed about Sharon Creech's novels is the way that she takes several seemingly disconnected threads of her story and weaves them together into a complete tale that makes perfect sense, once seen from the right perspective. They also have a habit of coming full-circle, so t...
Creech sets the stage well enough: there is a castle, with a royal family of five useless, discontent, and rather stupid individuals. In a nearby village there are a poor, orphaned brother and sister. And there are a couple of hermits. The problem is that nothing happens. The book is like a "fairy t...
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