Annie finds perfect beauty to be so normal that it’s boring. Most of the princes and princess are handsome or beautiful, but it’s clear that it’s all through magic. However, as often as not, it turns out that “true” love isn’t. The princes and princesses are all about getting married. We learn secondhand that Rapunzel had a different prince for every day of the week coming to visit her tower, and one of them was married. The friendship between Annie and Liam starts to become more, although it’s all very innocent. There’s also an underlying villainous plot that doesn’t really come to light until the end of the book-it’s diabolical, but almost an afterthought. A witch is turned into a beetle and squished. Liam threatens people with his sword and seems clearly capable of following up. SPOILER ALERT: Things you might want to know before suggesting this to your kid Violence Annie is clever and amusing, while Liam is straightforward and self-sufficient. The story doesn’t rely on the reader knowing all the fairytales, but it’s fun to figure it out. This is a fun story, especially since the fairytale characters and situations often aren’t explicitly called out so it’s up to the reader to put the pieces together. They wander through the country, encountering many fairytale characters along the way and collecting princes in the hope that one of them will be Gwen’s true love and break the spell. She sets out on a quest to save her sister and is soon joined by Liam, a nice young guard who was on an errand and therefore avoided the effects of the spell.

Of course, despite all precautions, Gwendolyn falls asleep, along with the entire castle-except for Annie. This makes her less than popular in a world infused with magic. Annie can also sense when magic is around. She makes Annie immune to all magic-in fact, Annie’s presence starts to undo magic spells. When Annie is born, their parents want to avoid another fairy curse, so they ask the wisest fairy to protect her. In The Wide-Awake Princess, Princess Annabelle (Annie) is the younger sister of Gwendolyn-the most beautiful princess in the world, cursed to prick her finger on a spinning wheel and sleep for a hundred years.

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