Kaye illustrated it herself, and I have rarely read a book in which the illustrations went so well with the story. Moreover, in case this story wasn’t already genius enough (it was), M.M.

Kaye obviously decided that every time she started to be saccharine, she would stop being saccharine and be AWESOME instead.

This talking to plants and animals and frolicking in meadows tends to be the sort of thing about which my mother puts on her old lady voice and snaps “Too sweet to be wholesome!” EXCEPT THAT, M.M. She talks to her wisteria vine and likes picking wildflowers with the local maidens.

I can see how this book would sound totally saccharine – Amy hums merry songs while she does her drudgery work, and she has animal friends with names that follow her around. And then she wrote The Ordinary Princess, the loveliest book ever. She wrote a book called Trade Winds in which the protagonist gets raped and falls in love with her rapist and they live happily ever after, which I’m not even going to get into because it makes me so furious. She wrote a series of mysteries, which I found terribly tedious. She wrote two books about India, Shadow of the Moon and The Far Pavilions, which I really enjoyed. There she meets a very agreeable man-of-all-work called Perry, and on their days off, they hang out in the forest feeding nuts to squirrels and building a little cottage for themselves. Urn:oclc:876442405 Republisher_date 20120922021253 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120920001854 Scanner More when she’s of marriageable age nobody wants to marry her, and what with one thing and another she runs away and gets a job as a scullery maid in another kingdom. OL1985679W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 83.08 Pages 132 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1101141654 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:52:35 Boxid IA152901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Date-raw July 1986 Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier

The ordinary princess book