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Synopsis
Many years ago a slighted fairy placed a curse on a beautiful young princess which meant the princess would turn into a mean and ugly witch if she ever touched a flower after turning fifteen. Now, Princess Emeralda, not one to take things lying down, is determined to break the spell. Emma travels back in time to the day it all happened with the hope of preventing the curse from ever being cast. She's unsuccessful, but, she does learn how to break it. Armed with this knowledge Emma returns to her own time full of hope. Disaster after disaster ensues and Emma is about to give up completely when things start to go right for her, in the most unexpected way. With a bit of courage, a pinch of luck, and of course, a healthy dose of magic, Princess Emma charms her way through yet another hilarious adventure.
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E.D. Baker has had many jobs, from parrot caretaker to member of the Red Cross Disaster Action Team. Her true love, however, is writing. She lives in America with her three children, two horses, one dog, three cats, one cockatiel, a rabbit, and two frogs named, of course, Emma and Eadric.
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Grade 4-6 - Princess Emma is anxious to marry Eadric, but first she must undo the family curse that threatens to turn her into an evil hag after her upcoming 16th birthday. Using the magical powers she is still learning to control, she visits the long-ago era when the spell was cast in an attempt to discover how it can be broken. Readers who enjoyed Baker's The Frog Princess and Dragon's Breath are the likeliest audience for this addition to the series as it seems to exist primarily to tie up loose ends. Even in this regard, though, it is disappointing. So much of the text is devoted to recapping the plots of the first two titles that there is not much room for a new story and the pace of this book is slowed considerably: " 'I'll put the spell in a ball like the ones we used when we fought King Beltran and turned his soldiers into frogs and mice,'" Emma calls to Eadric in the thick of battle. With such roundabout descriptions of the action, it's difficult to keep one's attention focused on the confrontation at hand. This title is necessary only in collections where the first two books are popular. - Miriam Lang Budin, Chappaqua Public Library, NY
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0747571171
- ISBN 13 9780747571179
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages244
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