Book one of the Enchanted Forest Chornicles" is laden with female wisdom and poise, Cimorene is adept at fencing, magic, dancing, economics, juggling and cooking, she's not ready to marry while only 16.
The enchanted frog who talks doesn't like the prince she's supposed to marry because he used to skip rocks into his living room. The enchanted frog doesn't have the hots for Cimorene, he's just a chill frog with smarts and Cimorene likes talking to him, he knows a lot about the Enchanted Forest.
Prince Therandil is far from estatic about marrying Cimorene, but he's willing to abide by silly ancient tradations. Cimorene is determined not to marry and she journeys away from her kingdom to live with dragons.
If you know how to make cherries jubilee and read latan scrolls to dragons, your safe from being eaten by them. Cimorene proves this in "Dealing With Dragons."
Cimorene decides to journy to the Enchanted Forest where many people have been turned into flowers, rocks or trees, and much worse. Giants, ogres and trolls have carried people away. Cimorene herself is attacted by a giant white bird who wants to feed her to its babies.
Magic, wizards, ancient fairy tale lore, and many dragons, devious and delightful made "Dealing With Dragons" a solid four star read. This 2015 book is the first of four in the "Enchanted Forest Chronicles" by Patricia C. Wrede and I will be reading the other three books in this series.
Mark Izzy Schurr
