
A tale of sisterly love and science. While Kate and Rupert's parents are off touring the kingdom, Cousin Garil is in charge. He lets Rupert do anything he wants, but Kate isn't allowed to do any of the things she likes to do: no horse riding, no play...
Master storyteller Robin McKinley here spins two new fairy tales and retells two cherished classics. All feature princesses touched with or by magic. There is Linadel, who lives in a kingdom next to Faerieland, where princesses are stolen away on the...
After the Princess kissed the frog, he turned into a handsome prince and they lived happily ever after... or "did they?" The Princess can't stand the Prince's froggy habits - the way he hops around on the furniture, or sneaks off to the lily pond. Th...
Rebuffed by the princess after retrieving her golden ball, a noble frog sets out to find a more suitable mate in Alix Berenzy's A Frog Prince"Several of the pictures are simply breathtaking, conveying an unusual depth of emotion. Wry, touching, funn...
MEET BUFO -- A TOAD WITH A PAST Jennifer Murdley had no idea what she was getting into the day she bought the big toad from the strange man who ran Elives's Magic Shop. The thing didn't even start talking to her until she had it out of the store. An...
WHO IS THAT HANDSOME GREEN STRANGER? None of the pond dwellers has ever seen the peculiar new frog before. They found him sitting in a pile of human clothes outside the hag's house. What a strange frog he is! He gets his feet tangled when he tries...
Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children...But no longer. You hold in your hands a volume of wonders--magical tales of trolls and ogres, of bewitched princesses and kingdoms accursed, penned by some of the most acclaimed fantasists of our d...
The art of storytelling and the power of a mother's love imbue this feminist fantasy novel -- a contemporary riff on the tale of the frog prince Once upon a time there was a middle-aged woman whose husband dumped her the month after their ...
Master storytellers Jody Lynn Nye, Josepha Sherman, John DeChancie, Nancy Springer, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, and others offer delightful new renditions of classic fairy tales, including the story about what happens when the giant's grieving widow i...
In this brilliant jewel of a book, the best-selling author of Tao Te Ching: A New English Version expands and deepens the classic fairy tale in the most surprising and delightful ways, giving new emphasis to its message of the transcendent power of l...
The first book in E. D. Baker's beloved Frog Princess series -- the inspiration for Disney's hit movie The Princess and the Frog!
Princess Emeralda a.k.a. Emma isn't exactly an ideal princess. Her laugh is more like a donkey...
This latest installment in the entertaining
And they lived happily never after... Caroline's plan to live happily ever after has hit a snag. She's spent months mapping the swamp, building tadpole nets, and kissing every wriggling frog she could get her hands on, and one has finally turned i...
"ONCE UPON A TIME" IS TIMELESS Young, beautiful, and wealthy, Emma Pennington is accustomed to a very comfortable life. Although war rages abroad, she hardly feels its effect. She and her mother travel from their home in Britain to the family...
Princess, meet frog... Dylan Shoenfield is the princess of L.A.'s posh Castle Heights High. She has the coolest boyfriend, the most popular friends, and a brand-new "it" bag that everyone covets. But when she accidentally tosses her bag into a fount...
I'm not your average hero. I actually wasn't your average anything. Just a poor guy working an after-school job at a South Beach shoe repair shop to help his mom make ends meet. But a little magic changed it all. It all started with a curse. And a...
It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday's only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true. When Sunday meets ...
A retelling of the classic tale of a beautiful princess who makes a promise to a frog which she does not intend to keep. ...
Part of the hot trend of revamped fairytales--from the films Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman to hit TV shows Once Upon a Time and Grimm--J.A. Kazimer's second raucous and irreverent book in the F***ed-Up...
One should be able to say of a princess "She was as good as she was beautiful," according to The Art of Being a Princess (third revised edition), which the almost-thirteen-year-old Princess Imogene is supposed to be reading. Not feeling particularly ...
A prince disguises himself to find true love -- Prince Nolan has had enough of Princess Blythe -- the woman to whom he has been betrothed since infancy -- and her simpering letters. Does the princess truly not have a brain in her head? Never before ...
Margaretha has always been a romantic, and hopes her newest suitor, Lord Claybrook, is destined to be her one true love. But then an injured man is brought to Hagenheim Castle, claiming to be an English lord who was attacked by Claybrook and left for...
Poor Princess Anya. Forced to live with her evil stepmother's new husband, her evil stepstepfather. Plagued with an unfortunate ability to break curses with a magic-assisted kiss. And forced to go on the run when her stepstepfather decides to make th...
Princess Cordelia is used to being overshadowed by her many brothers and sisters. So when she's offered the chance to attend her brother's wedding in a faraway kingdom, she leaps at it. In Northhelm, she'll finally have the chance to stand out. And m...
The fate of the United Kingdom of Seven rests on the lips of Princess Freida. Prince Alec has been turned into a frog and needs a kiss from his betrothed to turn him back. Too bad Freida's a spoiled, selfish sociopath who won't kiss an ugly old frog....
An undercover druid. A cursed fae. A fairy tale twist.Lillian practices magic on the sly, keeping it hidden from her abusive uncle, a man who abhors magic. She trains alone in the forest, away from prying eyes.In the wild, Lillian loses her golden ba...