One should be able to say of a princess "She was as good as she was beautiful," according to The Art of Being a Princess, which almost-thirteen-year-old Princess Imogene is supposed to be reading. Not feeling particularly good, or all that beautiful, she heads for a nearby pond, where, unfortunately, a talking frog tricks her into kissing him. No prince appears, as one might expect. Instead, the princess turns into a frog herself! Thus launches a funny, wonderfully spun fractured fairy tale in which Imogene wonders if she will be forever frogified.

 

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company .

Vivian Vande Velde is the author of many popular novels about ghosts, mystery and the occult. She lives in New York, USA.