Water Song: A Retelling of "The Frog Prince"
by:
Suzanne Weyn (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417773855 (1417773855)
Publish date: October 1st 2006
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 194
Edition language: English
Series: Once Upon A Time Fairytales
Watersong is a short, quick tale that I find so endearing. This is a retelling of the Grimm Brothers’ well known tale, “The Frog Prince,” more or less I should say. It was loosely based on that story anyway. Weyn pretty much played around with the idea of it and although endowed with magic, giving i...
Another interesting retelling of a classic fairy tale. This one - definitely a little different. Quite interesting over all, though I still found it lacking in detail and character development. All in all a nice update to an old fairy tale.
This was a short and very quick read but I liked it a lot.It's a re-telling of the Frog Prince story, set in Belgium during WWI. Emma has travelled with her mother to check on the family estate from England but the two are trapped due to the Germans. Emma's mother is killed during an attack and Em...