Princess DisGrace #2: The Dragon Dance

by Lou Kuenzler

Overview

Calling all precocious princesses! This series is sure to be a hit with girls who love E.D. Baker and other authors who offer a big dose of humor and adventure with their princess fix.
 
Rules for the Ballet of the Flowers:


   1. The invitations must be perfect.
   2. You must pick a beautiful flower.
   3. Your dance must be graceful.
 
At Tall Towers Princess Academy, the Ballet of the Flowers is a very special performance. But Grace just can’t seem to get it right. First, she ruins the invitations when she falls off her unicorn and into the mud. Then she picks a flower called dragon’s heart . . . but it smells more like dragon poo! And graceful? Well, that’s just not Princess Grace. She has much more important things on her mind—like whether a real dragon is living near her school! But will Grace’s secret new friend mess up the ballet performance?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780553537802
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	03/21/2017
Series:	Princess DisGrace , #2
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	24 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Lou Kuenzler loves to write stories that make children laugh. She lives in London with her family, a dog, and two cats. Visit her online at loukuenzler.com.

Editorial Reviews

01/01/2017
Gr 3–5—Princess Grace is back in her second adventure at the Tall Towers Princess Academy, where she continues to be as nontraditional as a princess can be. In this series installment, Grace challenges her friendships with the more traditional princesses while making new friends with a servant and a baby dragon. The large text size and frequent illustrations will appeal to reluctant readers, and Grace's high jinks will attract fans of both comedy and light fantasy. Although the story is rather predictable, young readers will appreciate the lightheartedness while rooting for Grace and her new friends. Fans of Shannon Hale's "Princess in Black" books who are looking for a slightly more challenging title will also enjoy this longer princess comedy. VERDICT A funny, highly illustrated story that will appeal to reluctant readers and is likely to find an audience where illustrated novels are popular.—Ellen Norton, Naperville Public Library, IL

School Library Journal

2016-11-16
In her second term at Tall Towers Princess Academy, Princess Grace bucks the rules and tackles adventures. Eschewing the cloying princess/feminine stereotypes that marred the first book, Kuenzler here gives Princess Grace—still clumsy and still tormented by her mean-girl blonde cousin Princess Precious—a mind of her own. When Grace befriends Hetty, the motherless niece of the school's gamekeeper, and gives her riding lessons on Billy, Grace's unicorn, she knows she is breaking the only-princesses-are-allowed-to-ride-unicorns rule, but she doesn't care. Instead, she questions the rules themselves. Riding one day, the two girls discover an abandoned baby dragon. Although they know that princesses are a dragon's favorite food, they smuggle milk (Grace matter-of-factly milks a cow to get the milk) to the dragon and it thrives. Threading through this adventure is the looming spring ballet dance, which Grace is dreading, since she is not, to put it mildly, graceful. While her best friends from Book 1, Izumi and Scarlet, practice their dances, Grace, thinking she needs to keep the dragon a secret from them, eludes them. Misunderstandings that illuminate touching and familiar adolescent insecurities ensue. The dramatic conclusion of this engaging and tightly plotted story celebrates community and friendship. Scott's spot illustrations add a lighthearted tone but show minimal racial diversity; save for Asian-coded Izumi, the significant characters are mostly white. Feisty, compassionate, and independently minded—Princess DisGrace comes into her own. (Fantasy. 7-10)

Kirkus Reviews