by Gail Carson Levine, Mark Elliott
Akin to 'The Princess and the Pea'.
In the interest of perfect honesty, I will confess that I have never read Hans Christian Anderson's The Princess and the Pea. In fact, prior to reading the wikipedia summary (which I did just before sitting down to write this review), all I knew of the story was that there was a princess who for som...
Read aloud to my little sisterThis is a delightful story! I had lots of fun reading a chapter each night, and explaining some things to the overly curious spirit that is my sister. She thought Lorelei was perfect, Trudy was simply misunderstood, and Prince Nicholas was boring. While I saw the story ...
Lorelei is quite accident prone and seems to be always getting sick. Her mother always cares for her, but when she passes away, Lorelei's father hires a woman named Trudy to look after her while he is gone. After awhile, Trudy wants to get rid of Lorelei because she just can't stand her. But how is ...
A great kids book that tells a fleshed out fairy tale.