By M.M. Kaye
All across the Kingdom, excitement is running high: a seventh princess, always the luckiest and most beautiful of all, has just been born to good King Huldebrand and Her Majesty queen Rodehesia. When the christening day arives, Her serene and royal Highness Princess Amethyst Alexandra Augusta Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne is showered with the most extravagant, marvelous presents-until her last fairy godmother proclaims , "You shall be Ordinary"!
And so she is. Princess Amy looks so ordinary, so unprincesslike, that no one can be found to marry her. The King and queen are desperate. But Amy knows that she doesn't want to wed a royal stranger, and runs away from home, embarking on a most extraordinary adventure for the Ordinary Princess!
-Excerpt taken from the back cover
What are critics saying??
"This delightful fairy tale is sure to please.... Kaye's illustrations are both beautiful and amusing. Neither her princess or her book should be considered ordinary"
-School Library journal
This is one of my favorite stories. By chance i happen to browse by it in the library when i was young and I loved it so much i bought it and still read it almost every week. I love the character of Amy because even though she is a princess she would rather be a kitchen servant. She climbs down the wisteria bush out side her window every night and plays in the forest of faraway. Her parents are hilarious because the are typical royalty. Amy also has a squirel and a crow for her companions and even though they don't talk, they are still really cute. Well i don't want to tell you anymore because you have to read this book!!
1. Dresses that don't itch
2. Bare feet
3. Squirels and crows
4. Apples and wild strawberries
5. Strawbery icecream and cake
6. The forest of faraway
7. Climbing trees
8. Peeling potatoes
9. Going on picnics
10. People that aren't royal(Princes are so stuffy!)
"Lavender's Blue
Rosemary Green
When you are king
I shall be King
Who told you so
Who told you so
Twas my own heart
That told me so"
This song is a traditional folk song called Lavender's Blue.