The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Dealing with Dragons / Searching for Dragons / Calling on Dragons / Talking to Dragons
by Patricia C. Wrede
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Read in January, 1998
recommends it for:
All fans of humorous fantasy
This series is absolutely one of the fantasy genre's treasures! It's wonderfully light-hearted and humorous; the author revels in puncturing any number of fairy-tale conventions. Princess Cimorene, for instance, isn't kidnapped and enslaved by a dragon --she voluntarily becomes housekeeper for the Dragon King to escape an arranged marriage. (And the draconian king is female; dragons use that title for monarchs of either gender to keep things "simple.") But though her main character...more
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Read in September, 2007
So I was waiting for my latest book club's choice to arrive in the mail, and knowing that it was a serious choice this month, I decided to relive some young adult books that used to be great favorites of mine. I own a very ratty hardcover copy of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, but recently purchased the newly released paperbacks in a box set. Perfect time to read them.
These vary in how much I like them. The first one I've read more than the rest, and do like a lot. It features a feis...more
These vary in how much I like them. The first one I've read more than the rest, and do like a lot. It features a feis...more
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Read in July, 2007
recommends it for:
fantasy lovers
The four books in this witty, imaginative fantasy / adventure series follow the adventures of Cimorene, a princess who refuses to be proper.
In Dealing with Dragons, Princess Cimorene, a tomboy who is nothing like her beautiful and proper sisters, runs away to live with a dragon. It is hard for her to get any work done, however, because princes keep coming to rescue her, even though she insists that she does not need to be rescued. And then there are the annoying wizards trying to steal mag...more
In Dealing with Dragons, Princess Cimorene, a tomboy who is nothing like her beautiful and proper sisters, runs away to live with a dragon. It is hard for her to get any work done, however, because princes keep coming to rescue her, even though she insists that she does not need to be rescued. And then there are the annoying wizards trying to steal mag...more
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recommends it for:
Anyone
This series has all the characters you know and love from childhood fairytales, but it stands the stories on their heads, or rather it tells them from another perspective.
Take for instance Rumplestiltskin, who in her books is a kindly troll with a tender heart that is too soft to say no when he is begged to take the firstborn of the maidens he helps spin straw into gold and his subsequent trouble with trying to house, feed and cloth them all. He needs the gold to take care of his family. He...more
Take for instance Rumplestiltskin, who in her books is a kindly troll with a tender heart that is too soft to say no when he is begged to take the firstborn of the maidens he helps spin straw into gold and his subsequent trouble with trying to house, feed and cloth them all. He needs the gold to take care of his family. He...more
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Read in January, 1995
This is some of the best young adult fantasy out there, especially if you like some humor in your fantasy. In the first book, the main character gets fed up with her life as a princess. When she tries to learn to fence, she's told it's unladylike, so she has to stop. When she tries to coook, she's told it's unladylike, so she has to stop. So, we begin the story with the main character running away to find a dragon to live with. She does find one, and she spends much of the book making cherr...more
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I love teen novels for a quick pick-me-up, and this trio caught me in the very first paragraph. While introducing the land where the story takes place, the author mentions that, 'the number five was fashionable' and I was hooked. These stories take you on quests with the reluctant princess through lands where you meet the real people where stories began, and those that have picked up where the originals left off...Young McDonald who has diversified the farm or the younger brother of a girl nam...more
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Read in June, 2003
recommends it for:
people who like fairy tales and witty little stories
Only just recently, it has come to my attention that the final book in this series was actually written FIRST. THIS BLEW MY MIND. The final book ties everything together so very neatly...Goodness gracious my perception of the world is crumbling around my widdle ears. OK so, these books are all really good aside from the whole my not being aware of the chronology of the publication and whatnot. They're all dragony and delicious. And also, it's like one giant fairy tale of awesome. Also, there are...more
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Read in January, 1991
Fantastic books from my childhood full of characters from fairy tales doing thing you probably wouldn't expect. Running away from an arranged marriage with a prince, the princess seeks asylum with the not-so-carnivorous dragon, befriends a very short witch, and forges a full and adventurous life for herself. Oh, and her dragon becomes king. not queen. that's a different job entirely and one she, the dragon, is quite uninterested in. :D
I highly recommend them to anyone in need of a good laug...more
I highly recommend them to anyone in need of a good laug...more
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fifth grade teacher
recommends it for: young girls
recommends it for: young girls
This book was the first real book I remember loving, getting engrossed in the story. I had never been a strong reader, and hadn't enjoyed it much growing up...my mom blames that somewhat on my kindergarten teacher. There were always books around my home, and I read when I was supposed to, but it wasn't until the fifth grade that my english teacher who had a nice library of her own at school asked me one day what I was interested in, what kind of stories I liked...everyone knew I loved art, she...more
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Read in January, 1996
recommends it for:
fantasy lovers
This is a series for people who like fantasy with a dash of humor and a strong female heroine who is perfectly willing to tell the slightly stupid handsome prince he can kindly throw himself off a cliff. Add some dragons, a few wicked wizard, one very forward thinking witch, a floating blue donkey with a 6-foot wing span, and an entire kindgom made of magical threads and you might begin to understand the stories. Wrede has a way of pulling in a few old fairy tale favorites while forging a stor...more
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Read in July, 2006
the book is about a 16 year old guy who is told by his mother he has to leave on a journey and not come back until he knows why he left. the guy leaves without a clue on why he left. on his way he meets a fire witch was is being hunted down by wizards. the guy helps her and they go off together to find out what they are suppose to do. later they meet a dragon and the dragon joins them. they find out that they are suppose to help the dragon king defeat wizard society, and that 's what they do. th...more
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Read in July, 2007
This is a great series, one of the few that Alex and I both fell in love with. The books are set in a magical, fairy-tale world, in which all the inhabitants know the tropes of fairy-tales; they know, for instance, that youngest sons are most likely to succeed in quests, and talking animals should be obeyed. The first three center on Cimorene, a princess who refuses to be a damsel in distress, while the last one focuses on her son, who has the unfortunate name of Daystar. Oh, and the author w...more
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Read in January, 1993
I love this series! I loved it when I was 10 and I love it now. Wonderful fantasy, tongue-in-cheek but still backed by genuine feeling. Through a program at my university I taught a discussion class on magic and fantasy in young adult literature with a a couple friends. This series may not be the most well known, or most highly regarded, but it was our first definite choice for the reading list! At one point seriously (embarrassing as it is) considered naming my daughter Cimorene.
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recommends it for:
Dragon and tomboy Princess fans.
This was the set that got me really started on reading. I use to hate reading before this. It's what really made me interested in finding more books like them. I couldn't get enough of it. However, I can't say much about it since I was in 5th or 6th grade when I read them...So I don't remember much, but definitely remembered I read it non-stop. Enjoyed it the entire way through. I barely put the books down as I read them. I want to pick them up an reread them.
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recommends it for:
anyone with a little brains and a sense of humour
Witty, inventive. A bit of a Shrek-ish feeling as with the classical fairy tale theme mixed with a great deal of irony. Suits everyone, perhaps a bit more for the younger teen age - the romance line is VERY vague (the challenge is to notice it!) and even more fluffy. Which just proves that nothing in this world is perfect.
Still, great read. I've read it quite a few times and still like it. So, if you're as weird as I am, success is practically guaranteed.
Still, great read. I've read it quite a few times and still like it. So, if you're as weird as I am, success is practically guaranteed.
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recommends it for:
fans of science fantasy books, Harry Potter fans, etc.
This series was (and still is) one of my favorites during middle school. I recently re-read them and still love them! Enchanting, funny, entertaining. Princes and Princesses, Dragons, Witches, Wizards (no these wizards are not like Harry Potter wizards), magic, talking cats, sorcerers, more magic, more dragons, a bit of satire - what more could you ask for? A jolly & suspenseful romp in a magical world (literally) that Ms. Wrede created skillfully.
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Read in January, 1991
recommends it for:
Everyone
My favorite humorous fantasy series. Ever.
Let's see: Cimorene, an unconventional princess, arranges to become a dragon's princess because it sounds more interesting than marrying her prince.
She uncovers assasination plots, learns about dragon politics, and in the later books, goes around helping save the magical world and generally being awesome.
If that's not enough to get you to read this series, then you probably just don't like fantasy.
Let's see: Cimorene, an unconventional princess, arranges to become a dragon's princess because it sounds more interesting than marrying her prince.
She uncovers assasination plots, learns about dragon politics, and in the later books, goes around helping save the magical world and generally being awesome.
If that's not enough to get you to read this series, then you probably just don't like fantasy.
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I love this series. I try and recommend them when I can, but people are kind of afraid of fanatsy. They are written in a sarcastic manner from the beginning making fun of many of the fairy tales and other fanatsies out there. For example, the main character in order to escape being princess seeks out being captured by a dragon. Very funny. The last book is about the the next generation and is not as good, but still worth the read.
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This series centers around an unconventional Princess Cimorene. The books mostly seek to turn fairy tales on their heads and I am sure there's nothing very deep here, but I remember them as being witty and amusing and interesting enough to keep me reading. There were also a great deal of talking dragons with amusing personalities as I recall. I'll admit it's been a long while since I read them.
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I loved the first three books in this series but the fourth I read because I needed the conclusion. I did not like it as much. I love the atypical princess, as I am normally very anti-princess. I love the fact that the King of the Dragons is just the title of the job not the gender of the dragon who holds the position.I gave four stars because of the fourth book, otherwise 5 stars:)
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