5/11/2023 0 Comments A tale of the wide awake princess![]() ![]() Just when all seems lost, something pretty convenient happens. Just when one is ready for her to return home with an eligible prince for Gwen, something stops her. ![]() Annie goes on a fairly straightforward quest, there and back again, and various obstacles arise in her path. ![]() The plot line is structured similarly to that in Baker’s The Frog Princess. Spotting these little extras thrown into the story is a lot of fun. ![]() For example, Annie wanders into the home of the witch from “Hansel and Gretel,” though her personality is not what one might expect. Of course, the reader soon discovers that Annie is remarkable in her own way all her talents have been earned through hard work, and she has the biggest heart in the kingdom. To start, Annie is not Sleeping Beauty, but her ordinary sister, “blessed” to never have the benefits of magically-enhanced beauty, or embroidery, or poetry. Review: The Wide-Awake Princess is a cute, creative tale that turns a number of fairy-tales on their heads. But first, she needs to figure out who her true love is. Determined to see her family again, Annie embarks on quest to find Gwen’s true love so he can break the spell. When Gwen falls into her enchanted sleep, the rest of the castle household surprisingly sleeps, as well, and only Annie is left awake. So when Annie was born, there was only one fairy, and she gave Annie the gift of being unable to be touched by magic. Summary: Princess Annie’s older sister Gwen was cursed at her christening to prick on finger on a spindle on her sixteenth birthday and sleep for one hundred years. ![]()
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