Author - Laura Cecil
Illustrator - Emma Chichester Clark
Publisher - Greenwillow Books, 1994.
Page #'s - 28
Rating - 4/5
The Frog Princess is a fairy tale about a queen and her three sons. The queen wants to pick a King and asks her sons to find the cleverest wife. They all shoot a bow and arrow to find their wives. The last finds a frog. All the women have to meet the Queen's challenges. The frog wins and the youngest prince asks the frog to marry him. That breaks the spell and the youngest prince became King with his new beautiful Queen.
This is a fun version of the fairy tale. This version is told with the perfect balance of detail and simplicity. It has enough story to have some depth and not too much that it confuses the story and the moral. The drawings are full scale color watercolors that really add to the story. The people are not drawn realistically which is fitting for this fun version.
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