Rosie's Library -- The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

While we were on our vacation, Rosie, Pippin, Lynn, Lynnae, and several other girls read The Goose Girl. I asked Rosie to write up a report, and she graciously did.

Here is a report on a book by Shannon Hale.
The title of it is ‘The Goose Girl’ based on the Grimm brother’s fairy tale.

There are several important characters but I’m only going to name some.  There is: Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee (Yes that is all one name), Selia, Talone, and Ungolad. Those are just a small portion of really awesome charries.

The synopsis;

Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown princess of Kildenree, was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue. She spent most of her childhood listening to her Aunts stories and learning to speak with swans. Until one day a colt was born with a word on his tongue, his name – Falada. Ani unlocked the key to his language and as her gift grew so did everyone’s mistrust in it. Finally the Queen sent Ani off to be the Queen of a foreign land. 

One a score of one to ten I would give it a nine. Because there was only one part that was a bit impolite, it was in a story one of the characters told. Other than that it was the best rewritten fairy tale I have ever read. ^.^   It is a good read aloud book too. Lynn read it aloud when we visited them. : )

 Now for the ending quote.

“I don’t get it,” said Conrad.
“Well thanks for that,” said Enna, a protective hand on Ani’s shoulder. “If you had to get every story told, we’d be in short supply.”  ~Enna and Conrad

 I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! 

(By the way, this is the first book in ‘The Book’s of Bayern’ series ^. ^)

Dia duit,
~Penny

Rosie's Library -- The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielson

Okay, here's my other little sister, Rosie Grymm. As I mentioned before, she is our librarian. She absolutely adores to read, watch, and listen to stories, so not surprisingly, she likes to read. A lot.

In spite of what she may seem like in the picture, she is in fact only thirteen. True to the picture, however, she is dead gorgeous.

My Dad's an expert in hand to hand combat and pistol shooting, by the way.

Just sayin'.

Anyway, Rosie recently read a book called The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielson, and loved it. It's then that I asked her if she'd write a book review on it so I could post it here on the blog. She's also compiling a book list that I'll release next month sometime.

Since this is her very first book report, I believe she did an excellent job, and I applaud her for jumping right into it without hesitation when I asked her if she'd write it. Thank you, Rosie! You're awesome. ^.^


The title of the book is 'The False Prince'. It is the first book in the Ascendance trilogy.
The author of this book is Jennifer A. Nielsen, who also wrote 'The underworld Chronicles', which I have not read.

The main five Characters are; Sage, Conner Tobias, Roden, Imogen. 

A synopsis: Sage is a fifteen year old orphan living on whatever he can grab off the streets in this medieval fantasy. One day a nobleman named Conner, comes and buys him. Later he finds out that he is meant to compete against two other boys to be chosen as part of Conner's plan or be gotten rid of. The entire country is about to start a civil war. Trying to stay alive and learning more of Connors dishonest plans, Sage has a choice between runnings or finding out what Conner is up to.

That is the brief summary of the book. On a score of one to ten I would give it a nine. the things that I liked about the book was one; there was no magic, and the characters were really well done. You could never tell who was on which side. the ending was very surprising, and I love surprises, especially in books. ^.^ I can't really think of anything I didn't like about the book off the top of my head. It was extremely well written.

To end this, here is my favorite part from the book.
Tobias raised his hand. A sign he'd been educated. At the orphanage I came from, a person only raised a hand if he was about to hit someone with it. ~Sage  

Hope you like it!

~Rosie Grymm

[Buy False Prince here.]

So there you have it. I haven't read the book yet, myself, but Rosie's gotten Percy, Seph, and Pippin (another sister. Yes.... I have a lot of siblings.) to read it and they all insist I read it, too. And being such an obdedient, kind hearted, benevolent big sister, I plan to aquiesce to their wishes. I'm actually quite intrigued...



Dia duit,
~Penny