This book is absolutely charming. It has all of the things I loved about a good fairy tale as a child--a stalwart heroine on a quest through a magic lThis book is absolutely charming. It has all of the things I loved about a good fairy tale as a child--a stalwart heroine on a quest through a magic land, complete with curious companions and evil villains to defeat. It's outside of the genres I usually read, but it reminded me of the tales I loved as a girl, and I'm definitely going to pass it on to my niece when it's within her reading level....more