What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Princess Lily
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SOLVED. Children's Picture book. Princess has a magic ring protecting her from a sorcerer who wants to take her away through a ring of fire to his dark, cold realm. [s]
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There's a copy of Princess Lily on archive.org and it seems to match your description exactly, so fingers crossed!https://archive.org/details/princessl...
Becca, that looks like the one! Thank you so much for finding it!
The princess grows up, still always wearing the ring (I think she might not know why she has to keep it on). One day she out is picking strawberries (maybe simply berries?) in the woods. When she's washing the juice off her hands in a stream, the ring slips from her finger. The sorcerer appears at once and takes her away through the ring of fire to his realm: a very cold and dark place where he lives alone in a castle or palace made of ice and rock - it is dark, miserable, jagged, and primitive. The princess is very unhappy about all this... I remember the rest only vaguely. I believe the princess softens the sorcerer's icy heart, and she ends up agreeing to come live with him for half or a third of every year. There's a picture of them sitting by the fire together in his castle; she is wrapped in furs and maybe reading a book.
I don't remember anything about the title or author. It's illustrated in a similar style to Charles Mikolaycak's "Tam Lin" - beautiful and fairly realistic. However, I remember things like the sorcerer's cloak, the ring of fire, and the ice in the castle having a more abstract, stained-glass-window look. The spine and edges of the binding are a grayish lilac. The cover might have had a picture on it, or it might have been blank and the dust jacket was missing. Thank you for any help you can give!