Dealing with Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book One (平装) 015204566X

在线阅读本书 Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart. . . . And bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon . . . and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for. .com Review Cimorene, princess of Linderwall, is a classic tomboy heroinewith classic tomboy strengths--all of which are perceived by thosearound her as defects: "As for the girl's disposition--well, whenpeople were being polite, they said she was strong-minded. When theywere angry or annoyed with her, they said she was as stubborn as apig." Cimorene, tired of etiquette and embroidery, runs away from homeand finds herself in a nest of dragons. Now, in Cimorene's world--aworld cleverly built by author Patricia C. Wrede on the shifting sandsof myriad fairy tales--princesses are forever being captured bydragons. The difference here is that Cimorene goes willingly. Shewould rather keep house for the dragon Kazul than be bored in herparents' castle. With her quick wit and her stubborn courage, Cimorenesaves the mostly kind dragons from a wicked plot hatched by the localwizards, and worms her way into the hearts of young girlseverywhere.

While the characters are sometimes simplistically drawn, adults andchildren will have fun tracing the sources of the

出版社	Harcourt Brace and Company
作者	Patricia C. Wrede