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      Aug 12, 2013 10:46AM
    
    
      My daughter loves all the settings of fantasy books. She loves the usual princess, knights and dragons. I was wondering if anyone knows of a good book to read to her? I am currently reading Deltora Quest to her.
    
  
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 is a great read with an important moral lesson, bright pictures, and fun rhyming. The Princess and the Pea was a classic, Disney has a whole line of books from their movies, The Sad Little Unicorn (I couldn't find a link, but it was published in the eighties and was the tale of a unicorn who could not fly, even though she had beautiful wings, and learned to fly from a dragon. Your local library might have it. My boys wore my copy out!)
If she is a patient toddler, or you read at bedtime, so she is not as invested in pictures, both of my boys loved
 (Though, not quite the princesses, knights and Dragons, you were looking for.)
    
      Keep them coming. I have The BFG and The Paper Bag Princess at my library.
    
  
  
  
      I'm guessing you've already been to Narnia with her? If not, both our kids loved the Narnia books read aloud. Alternatively, perhaps The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett - his books read aloud beautifully. Not as many princesses or dragons in this one, but definitely little girls, witches, and the Nac Mac Feegles.
On second thoughts, if she's a toddler, you might need to either pre-read yourself, or wait awhile :)
      We read The Hobbit to our daughter when she was 4.She seemed to enjoy Dealing with Dragons between the ages of 3-4 (though I'm sure she would enjoy them more now).
Um... The Ordinary Princess is a lot of fun and should be a great read-aloud to a little one.
I just finished reading Heartless and I think that would be a great princess/dragon story to read out loud.
This probably wouldn't hold the attention of a toddler, but when she's a little older, my own book King's Warrior was written specifically for families who like to read fantasy out loud together - I wrote it for my dad to read out loud to myself and my younger siblings (then in age range from 10-16)
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