" Baker is also the author of Wings: A Fairy Tale.
Baker is the author of The Tales of the Frog Princess series, including The Frog Princess, which was in part the inspiration for the December 2009 Disney movie " The Princess and the Frog. and perhaps even find a true love of her own.Į. She must find Gwen's true love to kiss her awake.īut who is her true love? The irritating Digby? The happy-go-lucky Prince Andreas, who is holding a contest to find his bride? The conniving Clarence, whose sinister motives couldn't possibly spell true love? Joined by one of her father's guards, Liam, who happened to be out of the castle when the sleeping spell struck, Annie travels through a fairy tale land populated with characters both familiar and new as she tries to fix her sister and her family. When Gwennie pricks her finger and the whole castle falls asleep, only Annie is awake, and only Annie-blessed (or cursed?) with being impervious to magic-can venture out beyond the rose-covered hedge for help. In this new stand-alone fairy tale, Princess Annie is the younger sister to Gwen, the princess destined to be Sleeping Beauty. Baker was released earlier this month, which has actually been a relatively full month for fairy tale related releases. It’s charming, it’s light, it’s fun, it’s a fairy tale with some clever twists.The Wide-Awake Princess by E. There are no real bad characters, and, sure, the romance that blossoms is to be expected, and the dialogue is a bit stilted, … but, you know, it works. That’s not to say that it isn’t fun on its own: Annie is a plucky character, and there is more than one instance where she manages to get out of scrapes (no damsel in distress in this book!) or into humorous situations because of her non-magic status. The more one knows about fairy tales, the more fun this book is. One of the most charming things about this book is the myriad of fairy tales it breezes through: there’s Sleeping Beauty, of course, but also Hansel and Gretel, Rose Red, Princess and the Pea, and Rapunzel, as well as a host of others that I’m sure I missed. So, when Gwendolyn pricks her finger on a spindle and puts the entire castle to sleep, it’s up to Annie and one of the king’s guards, Liam (who was out running an errand when the spell hit), to find Gwendolyn’s true love and bring him back to the castle to wake her up.
So, she’s not exactly welcomed by her parents, or her sister Gwendolyn, who, they say, is the prettiest princess in all the kingdoms. In fact, no magic will work on her, and the longer she’s around, the less potent others’ magic becomes. In a world where everyone royal is enhanced by magic - handsomer, prettier, better - Princess Annabelle (Annie to her friends) stands out.
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