The Ordinary Princess

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Summary: one of my favorite books ever!
Review: I first encountered this book when I was very young. I can still remember my mother reading it to me. Now I am 21 years old and I have re-read it countless times and I never get bored with it. It has such a good message about accepting yourself as you are and being happy with it. I wouled reccomend this book to any one- child or adult.

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Summary: Disney should do this as a movie!
Review: I agree with Kristin Silverman, I've been saying for years how this charming book would make a wonderful movie. I'm so weary of fairy tale stories--even modern ones, that have to have the beautiful heroine with the long tresses, wonderful figure--and heaven forbid one of them have freckles! I've loved Amy since the first time I read this book--almost 15 years ago. This book gives the girl with the gumption and spirit--rather than the looks, the best happily ever after there is!

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Summary: The Misfit
Review: I enjoyed this mystical adventure through time. Princess Amy was cursed at birth. With brown hair, a turned up nose, and freckles, Amy looks like an ordinary girl compared to her sisters and their beautiful blonde hair and blue eyes. A planned escape puts Amy in disguise and her family in a nervous wreck. While traveling to a different kingdom, Amy makes friends and gets a job as a kitchen maid in a castle. The surprising ending captures the heart of anyone that enjoys romance. Amy might look like any other girl, but she finds out that there is no such thing as an ordinary princess.

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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I read this when I was really little and loved it. I recently read it again and loved it just as much! It talks about how princesses (and people in general) don't have to be exactly the same. Like how depending on the book, dragons have different personalities. It's the same with people.I'd reccomend this book to anyone!

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Summary: A childhood favorite
Review: I remember reading and re-reading this book throughout my childhood. Each time I loved it more and more. For anyone who as ever thought themselves ordinary, this book brings about the realization that ordinary can be truly fantastic. Whether you are a princess or a maid, this story shows you that you are in fact extraordinary. I recommend this one to people of all ages.

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Summary: A princess of a different color...
Review: Amy (short for Amethyst Alexandra Augusta Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne) is anything but an ordinary princess. Caring nothing for her royal status and oblivious to the social danger she poses to her family (never before had a Phantasmoranian princess grown up to be a spinster), Amy sets off to live in the most agreeable fashion she knows how--surrounded by nature, or, when need be, with the unpresuming commonfolk in the kitchen of a neighboring kingdom's castle. Amy is refreshing for her simplicity and sweetness, her innocence and her wit, qualities which are apparent in every choice she makes. And the end is absolutely charming, though it shows that, in this genre, not even a non-traditional heroine can escape her fate of ending up as a royal bride.

I recommend reading this tale if you're ready for a "princess of a different color," but don't be surprised if you recognize some of the plot elements... it is, after all, the story of an ordinary princess.

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Summary: The Ordinary Princess
Review: I am dismayed to hear that M. M. Kaye's "The Ordinary Princess" is out of print. I had so hoped to purchase a copy of this special book for my oldest daughter's upcoming college graduation.

"The Ordinary Princess" was a book my daughter and I read and reread again and again throughout her childhood. Princess Amy was a true inspiration! Her ability to see past all of the pomp and circumstance of her palatial situation was heartwarming. Her desire to be herself and the action she takes to accomplish that certainly keeps the reader tuned in...And of course, the ending could not have been better.

I am amazed at the price on the out of print books that are yet available! I still hope for a used bookstore bargain down some obscure isle...

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Summary: Finally, it's back in print!
Review: I am so happy to see "The Ordinary Princess" is being published again. It was well-worth the out-of-print quest while it was on hiatus. Now that it's back -- even better (and easier). I immediately picked up a new copy to replace my battered old one.

If only Disney would make an animated movie of this fairy tale. This has been a favorite of mine since I was 10 or so. I'm now 24, and I still love reading it.

Unlike most fairy tales, The Ordinary Princess features a totally admirable heroine. She doesn't sit around all day just looking pretty and waiting for a prince to fall in love with her (or her looks). She does what interests her. She is active, kind, funny and intelligent; she just isn't "pretty." Rather than have her father trick some dopey prince into marrying her, Princess Amy runs away. What she finds is the perfect life that she deserves. (This lovely fairy tale sends a great message -- that you don't have to rely on beauty to find happiness and love.)

I love the plot, but the details of this book are also wonderful. Life in the castle is described with a sarcastic wit: everyone has an excess of names and jewels. A fairy godmother defies the norm: dripping of seawater and causing Amy to be "ordinary." And of course, there's a hero -- who is totally charming and wonderfully unexpected.

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Summary: The best fairy tale ever
Review: Princess Amy was given many gifts when she was first born, the last being the gift of being ordinary. As she grows up, she becomes a tomboy, much to the dismay of her mother. No one believes that she will ever get married, or have a productive life. She runs away, and the best part of the story begins. You must read this book, is a great way to make yourself feel better with your own skin.

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Summary: The best book I've ever read
Review: I just read an online review of this book from someone who sounded as horrified as I am that this amazing book is out of print. All children everywhere should read it. I can't imagine anyone not loving it, and I think that all of us whose lives were touched by it need to get together and convince the publishers that this book should be rereleased, and never allowed to be out of print again. I know that if it were rereleased, I, for one, would buy a replacement for my copy that has been read so many times it has fallen apart, as well as buying it as a gift for as many people as I could think of.