The Princess Tales, Volume I

Fun retellings of familiar favorites 2010-06-08

Reviewer: *Caligirl_08*

This first volume of fairytale retellings by the legendary Gail Carson Levine includes 'The Princess and the Pea', 'Sleeping Beauty' and (To be honest, I'm not sure what story 'The Fairy's Mistake' is supposed to be.) All three stories are told in fun and amusing ways though Princess Sonora's "smartness" was really annoying since a lot of conclusions she came to were downright inaccurate. For a grownup stuff like that can be amusing but for a child it can be confusing.

Awesome, Unique Princess Stories to tell your children 2008-12-25

Reviewer: Byn Always

These stories are all awesome. They are different, humorous and continually unpredicatble. Ms. Levine does a fabulous job of retelling well known fairy tales in such a way as to surprise and delight everyone and entertain even the most scattered of readers (not that I'm scattered or anything... I'm just saying, if I WAS:)

She has inspired me to write stories, and my children have been inspired to play make believe and make up new and interesting tales. She inspires creativity and thinking outside the box.

Fabulous story!

My daughter loves these stories 2008-11-11

Reviewer: K. D. Wells

There was a time where trying to get my middle daughter to read was like trying to herd cats. Then she brought this book home from the school library. I didn't have to nag her once to finish it, she poured through it from cover to cover. She liked it because it was funny and captured her interest.

Well, I was sold. I bought this book and Volume II and it was the beginning of the turn around. They helped to inspire the love of reading I was hoping for with my daughter, and now she willingly reads a wider variety of books.

2nd Quater Book Project 2007-01-16

Reviewer:

The Princess Tales Volume One By Gail Carson Levine

Rosella is a princess that was granted with a spell that made jewels come out of her mouth when she talked. No one really appreciated her but they appreciated her jewels.

Lorelei was a girl that lived with her nanny that didnt like her very much at all. Lorelei ends up pretending that she was a princess and it turned out she did eveything a real princess should be able to do.

Sonaro was a princess that was granted with a spell that if she was pricked with needle she would fall asleep for a hundred years and a prince would wake her up with a kiss. Sonaro gets pricked by a needle and she falls asleep for a hundrd years and she wakes up with a prince that was perfect for her.

Three princesses are each fighting hard times with spells and people.

Hundreds of years ago on Snettering-On-Snoakes these three tales take place.

Beauty, bravery, fear, hope, and love all take place in the story making it very detailed and addicting to read.

I liked this story. These tales really made me want to keep reading to find out how these princesses would go on living and why.

Warning- check your edition 2006-03-22

Reviewer: Reader

This book actually deserves 4 or 5 stars EXCEPT that the one that we got when we ordered it (a few weeks ago) has a major printing error- after page 138 pages 59-90 are repeated, before picking the story back up at page 171. That means that you miss the end of the second story and the beginning of the third, which caused great distress when it was discovered halfway through a long plane flight! We have the first Harper Trophy paperback edition (2003). Get the book- but make sure you get a different edition!