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"On Market Street"로 Caldecott상을 수상한 Anita Lobel의 아름다운 수채화 그림이 돋보이는 책입니다.

옛날 어떤 못된 왕이 50수레분량의 은을 받고 자기 딸인 공주를 괴물에게 시집보내려고 했습니다. 공주는 3벌의 아름다운 옷과 1000개의 모피조각으로 공같이 만든 옷(Furball)을 챙겨서 도망을 갔어요. 공주는 이웃나라 궁궐의 식당에서 일하면서 재치와 센스로 그 나라 젊은 왕의 마음을 사로잡고, 결국은 결혼을 하게 됩니다.






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Edition: Paperback: 40 pages
ISBN-10: 0688131077
ISBN-13: 9780688131074
책 크기 : 27.7cm x 22.5cm



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Book Description
Once upon a time a cruel King decided to betroth his motherless daughter to an Ogre in exchange for fifty wagons filled with silver. When the Princess learns what her father has done, she is horrified. But she is as clever as she is beautiful. Quickly, the Princess devises a plan to escape and, relying on her own spunk and good sense, ultimately marries the man she chooses for herself.


Publisher's Weekly
Stylized watercolor-and-gouache paintings give a lush, medieval air to this assured retelling of a traditional tale.


School Library Journal
In this variant of the Cinderella story, a motherless princess grows into an accomplished and capable young woman. It's a good thing, too, for her heartless father intends to marry her to an ogre in exchange for 50 wagonloads of silver. The princess, thinking her demands will be impossible to meet, requests four bridal gifts--a dress as golden as the sun, one as silvery as the moon, a third as glittering as the stars, and a coat made from the skins of 1000 animals. When her father meets her demands, the princess dons her coat of a thousand furs, packs her three dresses into a walnut shell, and runs away, taking along a special soup seasoning and three small treasures that had belonged to her mother. Disguised by her strange coat, Furball, as she is now called, finds work as a drudge in a neighboring king's kitchen. When the king gives a ball, she dresses herself in the gown of gold and attends. The princess attends a second ball, and a third, leaving each one abruptly and dropping golden tokens in the prince's soup after each appearance. At the last ball, the prince slips the golden ring on her finger before she disappears, and when the ragged Furball is brought before him, can identify her as his mysterious guest and future wife. Huck's telling is smooth and graceful, with a slightly rustic informality perfectly echoed by Lobel's flat, primitive style. With a palette that ranges from warm brown to radiant white, the illustrations complement the storyline visually, placing it in an undefined middle-European setting. Author and illustrator have created a strong female character: particularly endearing in her coat of fur, she is resourceful and charming throughout. The princess' reliance on her own abilities and the absence of obvious magical help make this a fresh and satisfying addition to library collections of all sizes.


The New York Times Book Review
There is freshness in {this book}, which is virtually unmarred by cliche.. . . A tale about incest based on versions conceived by Perrault and the Grimms, Ms. Huck's 'Princess Furball' is about a princess who rebels against her tyrannical father and makes the most of her gifts to survive in another kingdom and win the hand of the king. This narrative focuses on the ingenuity of a girl who plots her own destiny, and Ms. Lobel's vigorous pictures burst with joy in celebration of the princess's triumph. . . . If fairy tales do indeed play a formative, if not formidable, part in shaping the views of young readers,. . . let us hope that books like 'Princess Furball,' demonstrating even moreinnovation, will appear to help us see old, disturbing problems in a new light.