The Ordinary Princess

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Summary: A Perfect Fairy Tale!
Review: I have always loved Happy-Ending fairy tales, but mostly all the fairy tale books are collections of different stories. I like reading fairly long books so that once you get to know and like and wonder what happens next to the character they don't leave. I also hate it when a story is melodramatic far beyond a reasonable level. So when I found The Ordinary Princess again, (my mother had read it to me when I was younger) I was very excited and was always coming back to the library to read it again. I love this book because no matter how bad your day maybe going you can always lose yourself and have fun with Amy and Perry.

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Summary: Extraordinary fairy-tale mustn't get lost in Dark Ages
Review: Princess Amy's looks may be ordinary, but she certainly isn't, and she doesn't succumb to her family's pressures to be so. If only all ordinary princesses had as much confidence and imagination--and there were more men-of-all-work like Peregrine to go around! In any case, we should all be allowed to *read* about them--get the publisher to reprint--quick! It's a great read-aloud book, too...

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Summary: we should rally before the publisher so they'll reprint it
Review: Talk about a small world! I also read this book when I used to get Cricket magazine--unfortunately I only caught the latter half of the story and I've been hankering after the first part ever since. Despite all the red tape with royalties, etc. I wish someone would transcribe the book online at least....!!!

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Summary: A book worthy of "classic"
Review: I first found this book in the library when I was in the third grade. I read it and loved it. It was my favorite book for years after that. I was so disappointed when I discovered that this book was out of print. It is one of the few books that are truely worthy of the title "classic". Once you read this book, you'll remember it forever. I think that is really what a classic is, not a book that controversial or written a long time ago, but a book that stays with you for the rest of your life. And for me, this book is truely is a classic.

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Summary: the best confidence-booster for freckled brown-haired lasses
Review: I was given my one and only (hardcover) edition of this fantastic fairy tale as a child... I must have been 7, possibly 8... and it became one of my very favorite books, a spunky and heart-warming tale of a princess with 7 names, more commonly known as Amy. Replete with beautiful illustrations, luscious color panels in the middle (carefully handled), this book was treated with awed, exuberant love... until a friend borrowed it. So imagine the heart-wrenching when I found that it's no longer in print, much less in its full abundance.

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Summary: Funny, warm, perfect happily ever after story
Review: After finding this abridged on cassette tape at our local library, we then tried to find the book! THANK YOU AMAZON.COM for finding a copy in very good condition for a price I was willing to pay! My 5 year old daughter and I have read it through once, I read it myself once and my 9 year old son is reading it now. What a great story, what a great sense of description and mood and what fantastic, colorful characters! This is just a magnificent story, Amy is just wonderful and we want to share this with everyone!

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Summary: It sure grows on you!
Review: This book, like so menny others, grows on you. I read this book with my brother after I had read it myself, and at first he had been less than extatic. But by the middle of the second part of the book, he was hooked. He loved it! He couldn't stop talking about it. Just like me. Also, I had read the whole book pronouncing her name Ammy, and that only made it grow on us even more because it's kind of a humble name. We only found out much later that it was pronounced Amy. Anyway, it's a great book and you should really read it!

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Summary: A book that seems to stick with you for years upon years...
Review: I read this book many, many years ago when Cricket magazine printed it in installments--several hundred at least! For a while I saved it, but I kept losing pages and finally had to pitch what was left out. Nevertheless, I've remembered it fondly to this day, and it has served to inspire me in my own writing more than once. Amy is a wonderful heroine, and a refreshing change from scores of heroines who are stunningly beautiful and angelically good and have great magical powers or something equally irritating. And I'll always have a soft spot for Peregrine, the 'man-of-all-work.'

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Summary: This book is far from ordinary!
Review: M. M. Kaye's book has been my favorite book since I first read it in the fifth grade. There is such beauty and simplicity in this story that it is an instant classic. I love this book so much that it is constantly next to my bed, and when I go on extended vacations, I take it with me. Whenever I have had a bad day, or have watched a scary movie, I read a few pages and I feel much better. I was very upset when I recently learned that it was out of print because I would like to share this very special book with several young girls that I know. Please bring it back! And if you are lucky enough to have a copy, Happy Reading!

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Summary: I can't believe it's out of print!!!
Review: How can this book be out of print!!! I read it many times as a child and love it dearly. Recently I have been buying many of my favorite books that I read as a child and was shocked to find that this one has gone out of print. It is a wonderfully, charming story that people of all ages can enjoy. It's every girls dream come true.