The Princess Knight
Language: English
Published by The Chicken House, Frome Somerset, 2003
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Clitheroe, Lancashire, United KingdomRichard Thornton Books PBFA
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This is a Fine Copy of this book in illustrated soft cover format.Lovely bright clean copy that has been SIGNED by Cornelia Funke on the Title Page and with an additional drawing by her of a horse's head and also dated 13/10/03 Illustrated in colour by Kerstin Meyer.Lovely clean copy internally.Unpaginated but circa 30pp SCARCE signed title 4to First Edition 1st Impression Size.
Seller Inventory # 72085
- Title
- The Princess Knight
- Author
- Funke,Cornelia (Signed Copy)
- Publisher
- The Chicken House, Frome Somerset
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1904442145
- ISBN 13
- 9781904442141
- Seller catalogs
- CHILDREN'S
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Review
King Wilfred's three sons learn to become big, bad knights the way any boisterous boys would: "They learned riding and jousting, fighting with swords...They learned how to stride proudly and how to shout very loudly." At her father's urging, young Princess Violetta tries to keep up with the same lessons, "even though she was so small she could hardly lift a sword at all!" Despite her brothers' teasing and laughing, Violetta continues to practice--even secretly at night. Soon enough, Violetta becomes "so nimble and quick" that when practicing with her brothers, "their spears and swords just hit the empty air." But then King Wilfred does the unthinkable: For his Violetta's sixteenth birthday, he plans a jousting tournament designed to bring "the bravest knights in the land flocking to the castle" to win...her hand in marriage! Violetta is outraged: "You want me to marry some dimwit in a tin suit?" Fortunately, of course, the princess finds a way to come to her own rescue.
Funke does well in this picturebook format, but Kerstin Meyer's delicate and extremely cute illustrations set the quiet, measured (but still fun) tone of the Princess Knight, as she takes inspiration from a bona fide medieval piece of art--the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes
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