“The Hunting of the Hind” tells of a princess who has bewitched her beloved brother, hoping to beg some magic of cure, for her brother is dying, and the last tale is a retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses in which an old soldier discovers, with a little help from a lavender-eyed witch, the surprising truth about where the princesses dance their shoes to tatters every night. See search resultsfor this author Robin McKinley(Author) 4. “The Princess and the Frog” concerns Rana and her unexpected alliance with a small, green, flipper-footed denizen of a pond in the palace gardens. The Door In The Hedge Paperback Import, Januby Robin McKinley (Author) Visit Amazon's Robin McKinley Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. So begins “The Stolen Princess,” the first story of this collection, about the meeting between the human princess Linadel and the faerie prince Donathor. Robin McKinley is known for retelling fairy tales with more depth and complexity than the originals, in a graceful fantasy style vivid with colorful imagery and occasional wry commentary on the characters.

There is Linadel, who lives in a kingdom next to Faerieland, where princesses are stolen away on their seventeenth birthdays-and Linadels seventeenth birthday is tomorrow. All feature princesses touched with or by magic. There is nothing to show a boundary, at least on the mortal side of it and if any ordinary human creature ever saw a faerie-or at any rate recognized one-it was never mentioned but the existence of the boundary and of faeries beyond it is never in doubt either. Master storyteller Robin McKinley here spins two new fairy tales and retells two cherished classics. The last mortal kingdom before the unmeasured sweep of Faerieland begins has at best held an uneasy truce with its unpredictable neighbor.

From ensorcelled princesses to a frog that speaks, an enchanting collection of fairy tales from the Newbery Medal–winning author.

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