The Frog Prince

by Paul Galdone

Hardcover, 1975

Status

Available

Call number

398.2

Collection

Publication

McGraw-Hill (1975)

Description

As payment for retrieving the princess' ball, the frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.

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LibraryThing member BrittneyFields
Tis is a story of a beautiful princess that makes a deal with a speel bpund frog to be his friend. After the princess did not believe the frog would be her friend he followed her to her castle where he transformes to a prince and they get merried and the spell is broken. This is a good judgement
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lession book.
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LibraryThing member denicew
This is a traditional telling of the classic Frog Prince story and it sparks a number of good conversations regarding what is right and wrong. However, I was dismayed at the end to learn that the spoiled princess, who actually throws the frog at a wall, gets to marry the prince. Reward for a
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sullen, and ultimately mean, keeping of a promise should not be rewarded. I had never read the traditional story before, so it was a surprise when I learned that this book followed the original tale so closely.

Read A Frog Prince by Alix Berenzy instead. Good behavior is rewarded and the prince and the princess are perfectly matched.
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LibraryThing member raizel
Adapted from the story in Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Luce Crane (1886).

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ISBN

9780590757973
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