Ella Enchanted (the movie)
If you liked… Ella Enchanted, the movie, try the book:
- Gail Carson Levine Ella enchanted
- Ella is given the gift of obedience by a fairy godmother, but as she grows older, she realises it is more of a curse.
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- E.D. Baker Frog princess
- So if the princess kisses the enchanted frog he should turn back into a prince right? What happens if the princess turns into a frog as well?
- Franny Billingsley The Folk Keeper
- Corinna's job is to keep the wild and vicious Folk at bay with food, spells and courage, but then she discovers another destiny.
- Jean Ferris Once upon a Marigold
- A boy with a mysterious past falls in love from afar with the youngest of three princesses, and swears to save her from her wicked stepmother's schemes.
- Shannon Hale The goose girl
- Ani, former Crown Princess, is sent off to the warlike neighbouring country to seal a political alliance with a marriage but on the way is deposed by her unscrupulous lady-in-waiting.
- Diana Wynne Jones Howl's moving castle
- Sophie, turned into an old woman by the wicked Witch of the Waste, finds refuge with the wizard Howl, in his moving castle.
- Patrice Kindl Goose chase
- When the goose girl combs her hair, gold dust falls, and when she weeps, her tears are diamonds. And now she must decide who she will marry the old and rather nasty King Claudio the Cruel, or the young and not so clever Prince Edmund.
- Gail Carson Levine The two princesses of Bamarre
- Two sisters, one brave and adventurous, the other home-loving and quiet, but it is the brave sister who falls ill, and the shy sister who must travel far away on a quest for a cure.
- Robin McKinley Beauty
- A retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story, with a rather different Beauty.
- Robin McKinley Spindle's End
- Katriona travels to the nameday ceremony for the new princess, and finds herself trying to avert the spiteful gift of the evil fairy, Pernicia.
- Donna Jo Napoli Zel
- Zel lives happily with Mother until a chance meeting with the local lord's son, when Mother decides the only way to protect Zel from the world is to imprison her in a stone tower.
- Tamora Pierce Trickster's choice
- Aly, daughter of Alanna the Lioness, makes a wager with the trickster god.
- Gary D. Schmidt Straw into gold
- What was the real reason Rumpelstiltskin wanted the first-born child of the miller's daughter after she became queen?
- Cynthia Voigt Jackaroo
- Gwn, the Innkeeper's daughter, finds the mask and costume of the folk hero, Jackaroo, and decides to use it to bring a kind of justice to the people.
- Patricia Wrede Dealing with dragons
- Princess Cimorene is bored with her lot, so she runs away finds herself a job. Unfortunately all these princes think she needs rescuing from her new employer, the dragon Kazul.
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