The Trouble with Princesses
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Old World Princesses worried about whom they would marry, how they would overcome wicked spells cast upon them, and how they would get around dangers from witches or dragons or three-headed trolls. Princesses in the New World had many of the same problems. They were in just as much danger as the princesses of the Old World, and they were just as important in the tales that people told about them.
In this book Christie Harris tells some stories about New World princesses with introductions that show some Old World princesses who were not so different. For example, there were the brave princesses of the old world - the King of Cornwall's daughter, and Princess Rosette and Princess Hadvor - all of whom rescued their princes from great danger, and saved themselves as well. In the Pacific Northwest, the Princess Maada, driven by anger at her mother, braved great dangers to find her prince and rescue him from a curse. Then there were the princesses whose hand in marriage was the prize in a contest. Elk Maiden of the Pacific Northwest was something like that. Though the contest for her hand was not really a fair one, and she had to use some tricky of her own to get what she wanted.
A princess is a princess, it seems, at least when it comes to folk and fairy tales. But the princesses in this book are unusually enterprising. No matter how many princesses you have encountered before, these are worth reading about.
In this book Christie Harris tells some stories about New World princesses with introductions that show some Old World princesses who were not so different. For example, there were the brave princesses of the old world - the King of Cornwall's daughter, and Princess Rosette and Princess Hadvor - all of whom rescued their princes from great danger, and saved themselves as well. In the Pacific Northwest, the Princess Maada, driven by anger at her mother, braved great dangers to find her prince and rescue him from a curse. Then there were the princesses whose hand in marriage was the prize in a contest. Elk Maiden of the Pacific Northwest was something like that. Though the contest for her hand was not really a fair one, and she had to use some tricky of her own to get what she wanted.
A princess is a princess, it seems, at least when it comes to folk and fairy tales. But the princesses in this book are unusually enterprising. No matter how many princesses you have encountered before, these are worth reading about.
Douglas Tait (Illustrator)
LIB.00105
Toronto, ON : McClelland and Stewart
1980
0771039972
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English
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