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Summary: Must read !
Review: This is one of my all-time favorites. It is a "must read" in the genre of juvenile fantasy. This first book in the series of four is by far the best. Gradually the tales lose strength by number four, but all are definitely worth reading.
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Summary: Kelly's Review For Dealing with Dragons
Review: I enjoyed reading this book because I'm very interested in young adult fantasy books. I found it in the library one day and was interested in reading it. It is a really good book if you like the whole fairy tale thing with princesses and dragons. Basically, the whole book deals with a unique princess who doesn't quite fit in and decides to live with dragons. She does that and spends the rest of the book living with them. If you want the details, you'll just have to read the book. Good reading!
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Summary: A great book for young readers
Review: I read this book about a year ago and it was great! The story is about a bored princess named Cimorene who is absolutely sick of learning how to be a lady, so she decides to run away from home and have adventures. (The best move she ever made if you ask me) After following the directions of a talking frog, she befriends and becomes the princess of the mighty dragon Kazul. All in all this was a funny, lighthearted tale that makes fun of just about every fantasy story and fairy tale that has come out in the past five hundred years or so. Though some of the jokes may be lost on readers not previosly well read in fantasy, it is still an excellant and well written book with lots of strong female characters.
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Summary: A terrific book!
Review: This story was one of the best I've ever read. It's great for Harry Potter fans and people who like Dragons, since they are a big part in all of the books.Princess Cimorene hates living in the castle, taking embroidery and dancing and protocol, so she decides to run away and lead a more exciting life. She runs across some dragons, and ends up living with one named Kazul. Cimorene makes many new acquantinces, not all pleasant. She makes new friends, Morwen the witch and some of the princesses and dragons around Kazul's cave. Then she meets the wizards, who are constantly causing trouble trying to get into the Caves of Fire and Night. Then one day they pay the dragon King a visit...
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Summary: A great parent/child reading book!
Review: These are fantasy books very comparable to Harry Potter books. They are fun and funny, with enough adventure to keep your interest. The vocabulary is difficult because she does not restrict herself to using small words, but the difficult words are repeated so that you are rewarded for looking them up (or asking a parent.) Examples: mollify, incursion, evident. These books are best read with a parent. My daughter was 8 when we first read these books, and I had to encourage her to ask when she didn't understand the words, but after a while she got the hang of it, and some of the words actually stuck. Now that she is 10, she knows to ask, and she remembers many of the words. The characters are well developed, and it's fun to think of how specific characters would react to things and situations that come up daily in our real-world lives. It really adds to the enjoyment of the books.
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Summary: Dealing With Dagons
Review: This is a great book that I think anyone who could should read it, because the way the author expresses the character of Cimorene. She has shown the main character as a tomboy who doesn't and is tired of the thing they do in the royal family. Princess Cimorene finds embroidery, etiquette, and being a princess boring, so she runs away and becomes a dragon's princess. She loves her new job, which allows her to practice her Latin, magic, fencing, and cooking skills, all far more interesting than etiquette, but sadly neglected by her tutors at the palace. Her intelligence and common sense soon make her an indispensable advisor to her dragon, Kazul. (Cimorene would be cross with me for calling Kazul her dragon, actually Cimorene is Kazul's princess. Convenience necessitates the shocking error.) Cimorene is never more indispensable than when she discovers a dastardly plot by the Society of Wizards to take over the dragons' kingdom in the Mountains of Morning. Princess Cimorene and Kazul are both intelligent, strong willed heroines, and great role models for kids of both sexes. There's also a fun supporting cast, including the no-nonsense witch Morwen, the shy Princess Alianora, who comes into her own with Cimorene's help, the rather grandfatherly old dragon Roxim and his allergies, the stone prince, and lots of dragons, wizards, and cats. But the aspect of Dealing with Dragons (and the others in the series) that I enjoy most is not the exciting plot or the characters, but the humor. The novel is packed with sly references to popular fairy tales, slightly skewed so that the novel is at times an enjoyable parody of the fairy tale genre. ("So Aunt Ermintrude told Mama to put me and a spinning wheel in a room full of straw and have me spin it into gold," Alianora went on, "And I tried! But all I could manage was linen thread, and whoever heard of a princess who can spin straw into linen thread?") This is lighthearted and enjoyable fantasy for kids 10 and up (or younger, if read aloud.)
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Summary: A fun book
Review: _Dealing With Dragons_ is a light-hearted and fun story of Princess Cimorene, a clever and resourceful young heroine who, tired of being "proper," decides to wander off in search of a dragon. She finds one and offers to keep house, and then her adventures really begin. Add in a witch, a stone prince, snooty princesses, and a skewing of traditional fairy tales, and you have a humorous and enjoyable tale.
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Summary: An Absolutely Incredible Book For All Ages
Review: This is an absolutely incredible book that is perfect for all ages. I personally read the entire Dealing With Dragons series when I was eleven and I adored it. I found them again and reread them about a month ago and I still love them just as much as I did. Any child or adult with a good imagination would profit from reading this book, and others by Patricia C. Wrede.
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Summary: A REALLY wonderful book!
Review: I have read it about 10 times from ages 5-11. My dad loves, it, my mom loves it, everyone does! I know people ages 4-51 who love this funny little classic.
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Summary: In Which the Reader has Entirely Too Much Fun...
Review: Who knew that an author could write engaging fantasy while effectively skewering every famous fairy tale out there? The characters are wonderful, interesting people, the plot is quick and simple, and the humor is great. I'm a fan of Grimm and Anderson's fairy tales, and I loved all the inside jokes! (There's even a reference to The Chronicles of Narnia in the second book: anybody who can spot it deserves a cookie) If your looking for something light and easy, while still being interesting, give the Enchanted Forest Chronicles a try...
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