5/7/2023 0 Comments Hero alethea kontisWhile the princess of the Grimms’ tale is a brat who tries to get out of her promise to the frog, Sunday is sweet and becomes fast friends with Grumble. Sunday, our heroine, is a woodcutter’s daughter rather than a princess, and she meets her frog, Grumble, while writing in her journal by an abandoned well in the forest. The original tale features a princess who loses her golden ball in a pond while playing. Kontis draws mainly from the well-known Grimm version of the tale, which is actually titled “The Frog King or Iron Henry.” However, right from the start, she makes many changes. Our frog prince transforms back into a human early on. “The Frog Prince” portion of the book really only takes up the first few chapters. My Rating: 3 stars Warning: Contains spoilers As a Retelling: However, I’m only going to include reading recommendations for works about and based off “The Frog Prince” since I’ve done two recent posts on “Cinderella” retellings. But the two tales it draws on the most are “The Frog Prince” and “Cinderella,” so I’ll be examining it as a retelling of those. It has references to “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “The Princess and the Pea,” “The Red Shoes,” and more. Welcome back to Fairy Tale Friday! Today’s book is a little bit different from past ones because Enchanted is a mash-up of several different fairy tales.
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