![]() Verdict: I can't recommend you purchase this now, the only in print cover is awful, however, it's worth looking for a used copy to enjoy for yourself. It's also a sweet fantasy with animals, a truly delicious and unique fairy godmother, and an ordinary heroine who is anything but ordinary. It's still a fairy story with magical creatures, floating dresses, and royalty. It has just a little romance, a lot of humor, and pokes gentle fun at fairy tale tropes without being crude or raucous. I think, if reprinted with the original or a good cover, this fairy tale would find an audience. So it's easy for her to switch places with one Clorinda and retreat to the forest where she enjoys a happy life. She has a snub nose, cries, and is no more a golden-haired, romantic princess than the maids of the castle. Princess Amethyst Alexandra Aurelia Anne was the seventh daughter of a fairy tale king and queen but received an unusual gift at her christening "You shall be ordinary!" says the Fairy Crustacea. ![]() ![]() This is an original fairytale in the style of Eleanor Farjeon and Milne, who wrote what are usually called "fairy stories" that might or might not have contained actual fairies. This is from the 1980s and has been reprinted several times, with progressively worse covers, but I am lucky enough to have the original cover. ![]() Seventh princesses are usually extremely gifted, beautiful. Before all the fractured fairy tale movies and other retellings, there was The Ordinary Princess. The Ordinary Princess is Amethyst, seventh daughter of the king and queen of Phantasmorania. ![]()
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